Crossword-Solution: TASKWORK 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Scratched table, desks, copybooks, and worn grammars, had more the air of a comfortable occupation than of the shabby haunt of irksome taskwork.

All this without reference to the trouble and expense entailed by an aggregation of the trivial taskwork of signing one's name, addressing envelopes, sticking on stamps, and occasionally paying for them, and not infrequently defraying the extra postage on insufficiently stamped admiration.

Perhaps because he is not what you accuse yourself of being: he is not lazy; he never wishes to be a boy once more; and taskwork itself is holiday to him.

But when the schemes succeed, and the invitation comes, be recoils and shrinks back,--he does not dare to show himself on the borders of the brighter world he once hoped to sway; he fears that he may be discovered to be--a Leslie! On such days, when his taskwork is over, he shuts himself up in his room, locks the door, and drugs himself into insensibility.

But when the schemes succeed, and the invitation comes, he recoils and shrinks back,--he does not dare to show himself on the borders of the brighter world he once hoped to sway; he fears that he may be discovered to be--a Leslie! On such days, when his taskwork is over, he shuts himself up in his room, locks the door, and drugs himself into insensibility.