Nearly Lost but Dearly Won by Theodore P. Wilson is about the dirty Mr. Tankardew who lives in squalor despite his educated and pleasant disposition. Excerpt: «Certainly, Mr. Tankardew was not a pattern of cleanliness, either in his house or his person. Someone had said of him sarcastically, „that there was nothing clean in his house but his towels;“ and there was a great deal of truth in the remark. He seemed to dwell in an element of cobwebs; the atmosphere in which he lived, rather than breathed, was apparently a mixture of fog and dust. Everything he had on was faded—everything that he had about him was faded—the only dew that seemed to visit the jaded-looking shrubs in the approach to his dwelling was mildew. Dilapidation and dinginess went hand-in-hand everywhere: the railings around the house were dilapidated—some had lost their points, others came to an abrupt conclusion a few inches above the stone-work from which they sprang…»
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