scarsbrook's

Updated: May 9, 2025

But there! truth apparently is what no one wants, what no one will have least of all, Mr. Helbeck. She sees a meeting in the park, under the oaks the same tall man and the girl the girl bound impetuously for confession, and the soothing of old Scarsbrook's terrors once for all the man standing in the way, as tough and prickly as one of his own hawthorns.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I

Scarsbrook mentally, modestly replied that he did not care to obtrude private affairs at an inopportune time. He knew that weighty affairs doubtless occupied Mr. Scarsbrook's mind during his business hours, but had intended to do himself the honour of presenting his letter later on, &c. This at once impressed the D.A.A.C.G., who asked him to dinner that evening.

Louis Becke - Foster's Letter Of Marque: A Tale Of Old Sydney - 1901