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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... assure you , I thought would never have seen me but in my coffin - and a great mercy it is , it's only in a hearse . I fancy I'm the first that ever thought themselves in luck to get into one ; but , how- ever , I think I'm still ...
... assure you , I thought would never have seen me but in my coffin - and a great mercy it is , it's only in a hearse . I fancy I'm the first that ever thought themselves in luck to get into one ; but , how- ever , I think I'm still ...
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... assure you I felt humble enough when I was glad to creep into it . " " I repeat presume , Miss Pratt , " cried his lordship , now fairly kindled into eloquence , " to presume to bring to my house an equipage and attendants of - of - of ...
... assure you I felt humble enough when I was glad to creep into it . " " I repeat presume , Miss Pratt , " cried his lordship , now fairly kindled into eloquence , " to presume to bring to my house an equipage and attendants of - of - of ...
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... assure you , we have no fine people at Rossville , my dear uncle - not one ; and , indeed , I do not like what are called fine people any more than you do . We are a very plain , quiet , old - fashioned family- quite clock - work in our ...
... assure you , we have no fine people at Rossville , my dear uncle - not one ; and , indeed , I do not like what are called fine people any more than you do . We are a very plain , quiet , old - fashioned family- quite clock - work in our ...
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... assure you it would be well if people were satisfied with putting their deaths in the papers . What do you think , sir , of having to pay , as I had the t'other day , thirteen - pence halfpenny for a notification of the death of a woman ...
... assure you it would be well if people were satisfied with putting their deaths in the papers . What do you think , sir , of having to pay , as I had the t'other day , thirteen - pence halfpenny for a notification of the death of a woman ...
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... assure you , he knows odds from ends ; it's not every body that will do with him he puts you to your trumps in a hurry . ' Chapter Ixij . If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers , it shows he is a citizen of the world , and that ...
... assure you , he knows odds from ends ; it's not every body that will do with him he puts you to your trumps in a hurry . ' Chapter Ixij . If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers , it shows he is a citizen of the world , and that ...
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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