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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... once giving way to her agitation " again you see me in your hands again my fate hangs on your decision - again it is yours to save or to destroy me ? " Gertrude could not speak - her heart sickened at the evil she anticipated . " But I ...
... once giving way to her agitation " again you see me in your hands again my fate hangs on your decision - again it is yours to save or to destroy me ? " Gertrude could not speak - her heart sickened at the evil she anticipated . " But I ...
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... once in the snow even then , and it's now snowing ten times worse than ever -so I leave you to judge how they are to drag a hearse back nine miles at this time of night . " Here Jackson re - entered with a manifesto from the hearse ...
... once in the snow even then , and it's now snowing ten times worse than ever -so I leave you to judge how they are to drag a hearse back nine miles at this time of night . " Here Jackson re - entered with a manifesto from the hearse ...
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... once putting an end to the delusion under which he evidently laboured . But there was so much formal politeness - so little of the energy of passion , in his addresses , that she felt it would be like anticipating , were she to appear ...
... once putting an end to the delusion under which he evidently laboured . But there was so much formal politeness - so little of the energy of passion , in his addresses , that she felt it would be like anticipating , were she to appear ...
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... once testify her respect for the wishes of the dead , and complete the happiness of the living . However much Gertrude had longed for this opportunity , she now felt , as every delicate mind must feel in a similar situation , that ' tis ...
... once testify her respect for the wishes of the dead , and complete the happiness of the living . However much Gertrude had longed for this opportunity , she now felt , as every delicate mind must feel in a similar situation , that ' tis ...
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... once to resolve upon a point on which the happiness of my life is at issue . Pray , allow me a few days to form my resolution , and believe it is my most earnest wish to gratify you in all possible ways . The regiment is on the point of ...
... once to resolve upon a point on which the happiness of my life is at issue . Pray , allow me a few days to form my resolution , and believe it is my most earnest wish to gratify you in all possible ways . The regiment is on the point of ...
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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