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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... death 66 " This is - is- " " gasped the Earl , as he tried to throw open the window and call to his servants ; but the window was frozen , and , ere his lordship could adopt another expedient , his fury was turned from the dead to the ...
... death 66 " This is - is- " " gasped the Earl , as he tried to throw open the window and call to his servants ; but the window was frozen , and , ere his lordship could adopt another expedient , his fury was turned from the dead to the ...
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... death . QUARLES . ISS PRATT having carried her point , and M dried , warmed , fed , and cherished her person in all possible ways , now commenced the narrative of what she called her unparalleled adven- tures . But , as has been truly ...
... death . QUARLES . ISS PRATT having carried her point , and M dried , warmed , fed , and cherished her person in all possible ways , now commenced the narrative of what she called her unparalleled adven- tures . But , as has been truly ...
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... Death , even in its most dignified attitude , with all its proudest trophies , would still have been an appalling spectacle to Lord Rossville ; but , in its present vulgar and almost burlesque form , it was altogether insupportable . Death ...
... Death , even in its most dignified attitude , with all its proudest trophies , would still have been an appalling spectacle to Lord Rossville ; but , in its present vulgar and almost burlesque form , it was altogether insupportable . Death ...
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... death is come , let none aske whence nor why ! " G Chapter Ibij . And feel I , Death , no joy from thought of thee ? YOUNG . ERTRUDE was now Countess of Rossville , and how often had her heart bounded at the anticipation ! How slight ...
... death is come , let none aske whence nor why ! " G Chapter Ibij . And feel I , Death , no joy from thought of thee ? YOUNG . ERTRUDE was now Countess of Rossville , and how often had her heart bounded at the anticipation ! How slight ...
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... death , when that thought is not embalmed by affection . The funeral obsequies were celebrated with a pomp of heraldry — a display of solemn state , which would , if aught on earth could , have brightened the dull cold eye of the dead ...
... death , when that thought is not embalmed by affection . The funeral obsequies were celebrated with a pomp of heraldry — a display of solemn state , which would , if aught on earth could , have brightened the dull cold eye of the dead ...
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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