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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... rose to the deepest carnation , while she faintly answered- " I am . " Mr Ramsay gave something between a hem and a groan as he drew a paper from the very inmost pocket of his venerable repository , and held it out to her ; then ...
... rose to the deepest carnation , while she faintly answered- " I am . " Mr Ramsay gave something between a hem and a groan as he drew a paper from the very inmost pocket of his venerable repository , and held it out to her ; then ...
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... and conjecture ; and although to many a mind there is nothing more delightful than that sort of guess - gossip , yet Mr Lyndsay's rose superior to any such petty enjoyment , and he rather sought to divert THE INHERITANCE . 21.
... and conjecture ; and although to many a mind there is nothing more delightful than that sort of guess - gossip , yet Mr Lyndsay's rose superior to any such petty enjoyment , and he rather sought to divert THE INHERITANCE . 21.
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... rose and opened the window to ascertain the fact , but nothing was to be seen but a fast - falling blinding snow -he next went to the door , but there the snow lay six feet deep — he returned to bed , but not to sleep and when his ...
... rose and opened the window to ascertain the fact , but nothing was to be seen but a fast - falling blinding snow -he next went to the door , but there the snow lay six feet deep — he returned to bed , but not to sleep and when his ...
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... rose to 80 % -some done so high as 81 - left off , at the close , at 80 . " That's the 3 per cents . — and what are India bonds ? " asked Mr Ramsay . " India bonds , 61 to 63 premium - long annuities shut , short ditto , " & c . & c ...
... rose to 80 % -some done so high as 81 - left off , at the close , at 80 . " That's the 3 per cents . — and what are India bonds ? " asked Mr Ramsay . " India bonds , 61 to 63 premium - long annuities shut , short ditto , " & c . & c ...
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... rose at least 5 per cent . in his estimation . Having discussed the stocks in all their bearings , she proceeded with the varied contents of the paper ; but the fall of the 3 per cents . had not sweetened her temper , and she was very ...
... rose at least 5 per cent . in his estimation . Having discussed the stocks in all their bearings , she proceeded with the varied contents of the paper ; but the fall of the 3 per cents . had not sweetened her temper , and she was very ...
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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