The Inheritance, Volume 1J.M. Dent, 1894 First published in 1824, The Inheritance is the second novel by Susan Ferrier (1782-1854). Following the triumph of her more famous work Marriage (1818), The Inheritance picks up Ferrier's favoured theme of tried and tested morality. The focus here is on the fortunes of the young and innocent Gertrude St. Clair, who through the machinations of the desperate Mrs. St. Clair, leaves their home in France and arrives as heir apparent to the Scottish estate of Rossville. Contrary to the Earl of Rossville's plans however, Gertrude refuses the hand of the prepared suitor and instead falls under the spell of the ambitious and dashing Colonel Delmour. Ignoring the presence and guiding hand of the measured Edward Lyndsay who truly loves her, Gertrude throws herself into the bewitching gaieties of the fashionable world leaving all sense of duty behind her. Shadowing her light footsteps however is the figure of a mysterious and demanding stranger whose claim on Gertrude is to shape a very different future for her. Humanising the strain of evangelism in the novel is the inclusion of a collection of highly amusing and colourful characters, which, as noted in the new introduction, helps to display The Inheritance as 'a novel which shows Ferrier's skills as a satirist and caricaturist in their best light and that remains moreover one of the greatest examples of domestic fiction in the Scottish literary tradition'. --Ronnie Young. |
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... Major Waddell- 66 66 Major Waddell ! " surely , mamma , you Waddell my guardian ! humiliating . " " exclaimed the Countess ; are not serious ? Major No , that is too , really too " You assume a vast deal too much with your new dignities ...
... Major Waddell- 66 66 Major Waddell ! " surely , mamma , you Waddell my guardian ! humiliating . " " exclaimed the Countess ; are not serious ? Major No , that is too , really too " You assume a vast deal too much with your new dignities ...
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... Major Waddell every thing else I leave to you and my cousin " —Lady Rossville laid particular emphasis on the word cousin " and now , mamma , pray dismiss me - I am dying for sleep . " " And I of care , " said her mother , with a deep ...
... Major Waddell every thing else I leave to you and my cousin " —Lady Rossville laid particular emphasis on the word cousin " and now , mamma , pray dismiss me - I am dying for sleep . " " And I of care , " said her mother , with a deep ...
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... Major Waddell , or any other of the county gentlemen she would name — but she is immov- able on that point ; so we have only to consider here- after who it will be proper to make choice of . Mean- while , allow me to consider you as the ...
... Major Waddell , or any other of the county gentlemen she would name — but she is immov- able on that point ; so we have only to consider here- after who it will be proper to make choice of . Mean- while , allow me to consider you as the ...
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... Major having placed himself on one side of the car- riage door , black Cæsar , in no less gorgeous array , stationed himself at the other ; and then , after a little feminine delay , there came forth Mrs Major Waddell in all her bravery ...
... Major having placed himself on one side of the car- riage door , black Cæsar , in no less gorgeous array , stationed himself at the other ; and then , after a little feminine delay , there came forth Mrs Major Waddell in all her bravery ...
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... Major's playful recrimination , and she interrupted him by saying , with a somewhat stately air- " I imagined it was my aunt Mary who had arrived ; and knowing how helpless she is , I hastened out to see that she was properly attended ...
... Major's playful recrimination , and she interrupted him by saying , with a somewhat stately air- " I imagined it was my aunt Mary who had arrived ; and knowing how helpless she is , I hastened out to see that she was properly attended ...
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agitation agony Anne Anne Black answer Anthony Whyte assure Augusta better blush burst calm canna carriage certainly Chapter Colonel Delmour Countess of Rossville cousin cried Gertrude cried Mrs St daughter dear dearest Gertrude dinna dinner door dress Duchess emotion EURIPIDES exclaimed eyes fear feelings felt flattered forgive frae Gertrude's give guardian Guy Mannering hand happiness head hear heard hearse heart Heaven hope instantly Lady Betty Lady Charles Lady Rossville Lady Rossville's ladyship Larkins laudanum leave length Lewiston lips looked Lord Rossville lover Lyndsay Lyndsay's Major Waddell mamma manner Masham maun ment Millbank mind Miss Pratt mortification mother never passed passion person pleasure promise Ramsay returned rose scarcely seemed servant sigh smile St Clair St Ives sure tears tell there's thing thought to-morrow told tone trude turned uncle Adam uttered voice weel wish words