Crossword-Solution: TAPIST 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

But, a red-tapist by nature, and hating innovations, owing to weakness of mind, he trembled inwardly and cried in agony: "Wife, you'll ruin us." The mistress calmed the poor man's alarm; she tried to impart to him some of her confidence, to animate him with her hope, but without success, so she went on without him.

But, a red-tapist by nature, and hating innovations, owing to weakness of mind, he trembled inwardly and cried in agony: “Wife, you’ll ruin us.” The mistress calmed the poor man’s alarm; she tried to impart to him some of her confidence, to animate him with her hope, but without success, so she went on without him.

Well, he did not say "No," and after kissing his three portionless daughters on the forehead, he took his old uniform, half-eaten up by moths, from a drawer, shook the grains of pepper and camphor from it, and, with his slow, red-tapist step, went to make his excavators work as far as possible from the walls and close by the Prussians.

Well, he did not say “No,” and after kissing his three portionless daughters on the forehead, he took his old uniform, half-eaten up by moths, from a drawer, shook the grains of pepper and camphor from it, and, with his slow, red-tapist step, went to make his excavators work as far as possible from the walls and close by the Prussians.

You seem a smart young fellow; but you must throw over that stiff red-tapist of yours, and go with Public Opinion, and--Myself." "You are very kind, Avenel; perhaps when we come to compare opinions we may find that we agree entirely.