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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... meet- ing , she had with tears implored his silence - his secrecy -his forbearance - and , in broken and indirect terms , had given him to understand that this person had been engaged with her husband in certain money transac- tions ...
... meet- ing , she had with tears implored his silence - his secrecy -his forbearance - and , in broken and indirect terms , had given him to understand that this person had been engaged with her husband in certain money transac- tions ...
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... meet nae mair— but , before we part , there's ae thing I maun tell you- Trust me , ye'll ne'er buy true friends - nor true love —nor true happiness , o ' ony kind , wi ' money - so beg , and borrow , and spend , as you will , but mind ...
... meet nae mair— but , before we part , there's ae thing I maun tell you- Trust me , ye'll ne'er buy true friends - nor true love —nor true happiness , o ' ony kind , wi ' money - so beg , and borrow , and spend , as you will , but mind ...
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... meet with acts of friendship from those who would be ready to " bandy words with us as a dog . " But how much is it to be regretted when charity and good - will thus assume the garb of enmity , and when kind - hearted people convey ...
... meet with acts of friendship from those who would be ready to " bandy words with us as a dog . " But how much is it to be regretted when charity and good - will thus assume the garb of enmity , and when kind - hearted people convey ...
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... meet him accordingly . Miss Pratt , like many other people , had a sort of instinctive reverence for riches , even where she had not the slightest prospect of profiting by them . She , therefore , accosted Mr Ramsay with the greatest re ...
... meet him accordingly . Miss Pratt , like many other people , had a sort of instinctive reverence for riches , even where she had not the slightest prospect of profiting by them . She , therefore , accosted Mr Ramsay with the greatest re ...
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... meet with justice- let these appoint guardians for me " She Mrs St Clair was struck with consternation . felt the error she had committed in goading to the utmost a spirit such as her daughter's ; and there re- mained but one way to ...
... meet with justice- let these appoint guardians for me " She Mrs St Clair was struck with consternation . felt the error she had committed in goading to the utmost a spirit such as her daughter's ; and there re- mained but one way to ...
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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