bye-tasks

Updated: May 14, 2025

But in the afternoon he gave himself to all the delightful bye-tasks: the works of supererogation, the excursions into side paths, the niggling with proofs, the toying with style, the potterings and polishings, the ruminations, and rewritings and refinements which make the joy of the man of letters.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Testing of Diana Mallory