Wacha, Dinshaw Edulji: Premchund Roychund: his early life and career (Bombay, 1913)

himself by his simplicity, amiability,
and many private virtues, to all classes
of the people, irrespective of colour, caste
and creed. He was their idol all the
time that the dazzling sun of prosperity
shone on him so refulgently. A hard
worker, there was in him a capital
qualification to despatch business in the
shortest possible time. He never doubted
or delayed. Dilatoriness was repugnant
to his nature as a man of swift action and
swift resolution. In conversation as well
as in writing he was invariably laconic
and to the point. Not one word beyond
necessary was spoken or written. Having
despatched all and sundry at Love Lane
by 8 o'clock, he would repair to his town
house at Vithul Wadi where, too, another
and larger crowd would await him. He
knew how to despatch them also.
Having done so, he would be in his office
in the Fort by 10 or even before it. Of
course, the first and earliest visit would
be paid to the members of the hrm of

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