Possible Clues:

• Gauged
• Did a taxing task?
• Levied
• For what it's worth she's a fool, perhaps, over Edward
• Imposed, as a payment
• Reckoned they were silly enough to have got Desmond up
• Reckoned how foolish they were to give Desmond a turn
• What a fool she is reckoned to be over the editor
• How one found how much the boy got up under the fools
• Taxed