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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... door ; then , turning round , she pressed Lyndsay's hand , and in breathless accents whispered , " For Ger- trude's sake , then , you will be silent till to - morrow- you promise me this . " " Till to - morrow , then , be it , " said he ...
... door ; then , turning round , she pressed Lyndsay's hand , and in breathless accents whispered , " For Ger- trude's sake , then , you will be silent till to - morrow- you promise me this . " " Till to - morrow , then , be it , " said he ...
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... door with violence , she seemed as if eager to indemnify herself for the constraint she had been under . " Gertrude ! ” cried she , all at once giving way to her agitation " again you see me in your hands again my fate hangs on your ...
... door with violence , she seemed as if eager to indemnify herself for the constraint she had been under . " Gertrude ! ” cried she , all at once giving way to her agitation " again you see me in your hands again my fate hangs on your ...
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... door of the apartment where he was , and she stood some minutes with her hand on the lock ere she had courage to turn it . At length she entered , but dared not lift her eyes to the cold sour visage whose influence she felt even without ...
... door of the apartment where he was , and she stood some minutes with her hand on the lock ere she had courage to turn it . At length she entered , but dared not lift her eyes to the cold sour visage whose influence she felt even without ...
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... door , but there the snow lay six feet deep — he returned to bed , but not to sleep and when his servant entered in the morning , he found his master a lifeless corse . Whence it came , who can tell ? Whether from cold , apoplexy ...
... door , but there the snow lay six feet deep — he returned to bed , but not to sleep and when his servant entered in the morning , he found his master a lifeless corse . Whence it came , who can tell ? Whether from cold , apoplexy ...
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... door . Altogether it had a desolate , uninhabited look , different from the neatly scraped paths and sanded steps belonging to the houses on either side ; and Gertrude began to fear , she knew not what , from this desolate exterior ...
... door . Altogether it had a desolate , uninhabited look , different from the neatly scraped paths and sanded steps belonging to the houses on either side ; and Gertrude began to fear , she knew not what , from this desolate exterior ...
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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