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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... affections , ensnared by the artifices of one every way unworthy of her , has been led to bestow her regards- " " " Pardon me , " cried Lyndsay ; " but I can have no possible right to be made the depository of Miss St Clair's sentiments ...
... affections , ensnared by the artifices of one every way unworthy of her , has been led to bestow her regards- " " " Pardon me , " cried Lyndsay ; " but I can have no possible right to be made the depository of Miss St Clair's sentiments ...
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... affections of my unsuspecting child had been thus artfully and insidiously worked upon by Colonel Delmour . know him , and you know him , to be a selfish , mer- cenary , unprincipled man , as incapable of appreciating such a being as ...
... affections of my unsuspecting child had been thus artfully and insidiously worked upon by Colonel Delmour . know him , and you know him , to be a selfish , mer- cenary , unprincipled man , as incapable of appreciating such a being as ...
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... affection . BU Chapter lib . Qu'un ami veritable est une douce chose ! LA FONTAINE . UT Mrs St Clair was in no mood to sympathise in the nature of her daughter's distress , as her own joy at receiving the money seemed to absorb every ...
... affection . BU Chapter lib . Qu'un ami veritable est une douce chose ! LA FONTAINE . UT Mrs St Clair was in no mood to sympathise in the nature of her daughter's distress , as her own joy at receiving the money seemed to absorb every ...
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... affection- ate heart and refined taste , what can supply the want of that social intercourse which is the very aliment of the soul ? Nothing could be more triste than this state of existence . The only varieties she experienced were in ...
... affection- ate heart and refined taste , what can supply the want of that social intercourse which is the very aliment of the soul ? Nothing could be more triste than this state of existence . The only varieties she experienced were in ...
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... affection , when merely thought of as " to be or not to be , " and Death and his awful attributes are not made manifest to our senses ! But how sad and solemn when we come to witness , even in those most alien to us , the last struggle ...
... affection , when merely thought of as " to be or not to be , " and Death and his awful attributes are not made manifest to our senses ! But how sad and solemn when we come to witness , even in those most alien to us , the last struggle ...
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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