Possible Clues:

• One who punishes company going to press after scandal, initially
• Nuisance, when there's a business increase all round
• What a dam' nuisance, at the bar, to get nothing to press this!
• Counsel may press it all about nothing. Can you beat that?
• What a pest to be so firm in the swell!
• Whip used to inflict punishment
• This goes and gets to be a pest with the cur
• Counsel has no urge to beat with it
• Bane, curse
• Whip; affliction