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The shrewd man sees his opportunity and
endeavours to win. As experience is
gained; that faculty is sharpened. He
does his best to overreach the other party.
That Mr. Premchund, with his shrewd-
ness and experience, did his best to over-
reach those transacting business with him
cannot be denied. It was his business to
reap the fruits of his superior shrewdness,
combined with his other characteristics.
It was the sharpness of the practised per-
son and no more as the sharpness of the
most shrewd and skilful even to-day has
led and does lead many to a fortune in
every part of the civilized world. But it
was not anything like " sharp practice"
about which lawyers wrangle in courts of
law. Resolved into its constituent or
fundamental element all that the sharp-
ness meant was a shrewd intelligence
which exercised its commercial sagacity to
surpass the other person. Of course, it
would be sharp practice, tantamount to a
deliberate fraud, were such a person to
endeavours to win. As experience is
gained; that faculty is sharpened. He
does his best to overreach the other party.
That Mr. Premchund, with his shrewd-
ness and experience, did his best to over-
reach those transacting business with him
cannot be denied. It was his business to
reap the fruits of his superior shrewdness,
combined with his other characteristics.
It was the sharpness of the practised per-
son and no more as the sharpness of the
most shrewd and skilful even to-day has
led and does lead many to a fortune in
every part of the civilized world. But it
was not anything like " sharp practice"
about which lawyers wrangle in courts of
law. Resolved into its constituent or
fundamental element all that the sharp-
ness meant was a shrewd intelligence
which exercised its commercial sagacity to
surpass the other person. Of course, it
would be sharp practice, tantamount to a
deliberate fraud, were such a person to