Crossword-Solution: DRAMM 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dramm's having entered upon the practise of this somewhat grisly trade makes in itself a little tale.

The reader was made to perceive that Dramm, being cognizant and mildly resentful of the attitude in which his own little world held him, by reason of the fatal work of his hands, sought after a semiapologetic fashion to offer a plea in abatement of public judgment, to set up a weight of moral evidence in his own behalf, and behind this in turn, and showing through it, might be sensed the shy pride of a shy man for labour undertaken with good motives and creditably performed.

Dramm in an awesome and horrified veneration, bowing to him most respectfully when they met him, and then sidling off hurriedly.