Short Fiction · Character
Scroope Marston
The disinherited elder son of Gylingden Hall, whose furious sense of wrong turns a family quarrel into a lifelong, brooding war.
supporting
Also known as Marston, Scroope
First appearance: an authentic narrative of a haunted house
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The elder, deformed son who is disinherited by the will and later dies suddenly, leaving his estate to Charles.
Raised in the rough, hard-drinking society of his father's table, Scroope Marston expects to inherit Gylingden as his birthright—until the old Squire's will leaves it to his younger brother Charles. Pale, dark-haired, and ungainly in his rage, he storms out of the oak parlour with his fists clenched and his legal advisers against him, and carries his grievance to London. His quarrel with Charles is the engine of the tale's early movement, and the bitterness he nurses there will shape everything that follows.
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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