Scatcherd

"Scatcherd," said the doctor, "you have been as near your God, as any man ever was who afterwards ate and drank in this world."

Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope 1848

Scatcherd, as well as have sat there in his own drawing-room, drinking it alone; for he got no pen and paper, and he dawdled over his teacup with the utmost dilatoriness, putting off, as it were, the evil day.

Framley Parsonage 2004

And then they felt sure that none but Scatcherd would be called upon to construct the dock or make the railway.

Doctor Thorne 2004

So Lady Scatcherd still administered the alcohol, and he from day to day invented little schemes for increasing the amount, over which he chuckled with ghastly laughter.

Doctor Thorne 2004

But then, looking at Lady Scatcherd, and looking also at his other near neighbour, his friend the squire, there was little thereabouts to lead him on to matrimony.

Framley Parsonage 2004

‘Jane tells me that they all say at Greshambury that he is going to marry Lady Scatcherd.’

Framley Parsonage 2004

Now Lady Scatcherd was a widow living in those parts; an excellent woman, but not one formed by nature to grace society of the highest order.

Framley Parsonage 2004

Lady Scatcherd, when the rapid meal in his own house was over.

Framley Parsonage 2004

The doctor, as was his custom, dined at five, and at seven, went up to the cottage of his old friend Lady Scatcherd.

Framley Parsonage 2004

Scatcherd with a pretty cottage and a good jointure.

Framley Parsonage 2004