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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... carriage and horses , to quit my grounds without one moment's delay . " - " My dear Lord Rossville ! ( stop , Jackson ) - Bless my heart ! you're not going to turn away the people at this time of night ! -Only look how it's snowing ...
... carriage and horses , to quit my grounds without one moment's delay . " - " My dear Lord Rossville ! ( stop , Jackson ) - Bless my heart ! you're not going to turn away the people at this time of night ! -Only look how it's snowing ...
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... bor- rowed the Skinflint carriage , and set out at the risk of her life - but the horses had stuck in the snow , & c . & c . & c . Miss Pratt's biographer , on the other hand , asserts 30 THE INHERITANCE . Chapter Ibj. ...
... bor- rowed the Skinflint carriage , and set out at the risk of her life - but the horses had stuck in the snow , & c . & c . & c . Miss Pratt's biographer , on the other hand , asserts 30 THE INHERITANCE . Chapter Ibj. ...
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... carriage for her in the double hope that , as Rossville Castle was in the way , their guest Iwould avail herself of the opportunity of taking her departure . Accordingly , a pair of old , stiff , starved , superannuated horses , were ...
... carriage for her in the double hope that , as Rossville Castle was in the way , their guest Iwould avail herself of the opportunity of taking her departure . Accordingly , a pair of old , stiff , starved , superannuated horses , were ...
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... carriage ; and for Miss Pratt , her green bag , and the coachman to mount the horses , and proceed to the nearest habitation . But the snow fell thick and fast - Miss Pratt could not keep her seat on the bare back of a huge stiff plough ...
... carriage ; and for Miss Pratt , her green bag , and the coachman to mount the horses , and proceed to the nearest habitation . But the snow fell thick and fast - Miss Pratt could not keep her seat on the bare back of a huge stiff plough ...
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... carriage one day ; and having contrived to elude the curiosity of Lady Betty and the vigilance of Miss Pratt , she set out alone in hopes of making her peace - at any rate of relieving her mind from the weight of pecuniary obligation ...
... carriage one day ; and having contrived to elude the curiosity of Lady Betty and the vigilance of Miss Pratt , she set out alone in hopes of making her peace - at any rate of relieving her mind from the weight of pecuniary obligation ...
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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