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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... 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 , which , out of regard to ...
... 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 , which , out of regard to ...
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... tears were visible in her eyes . She did not , however , now seem to shun him ; for she stopped and extended her hand to him , saying " You are the very person I most wish to see -give me your arm , and let us return together - I have ...
... tears were visible in her eyes . She did not , however , now seem to shun him ; for she stopped and extended her hand to him , saying " You are the very person I most wish to see -give me your arm , and let us return together - I have ...
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... tears . " But where is such a sum to be procured ? " asked her daughter , as she thought how she had already been stripped of every thing she could call her own . have nothing in my power ! " 2 - " I " I know you have nothing to give ...
... tears . " But where is such a sum to be procured ? " asked her daughter , as she thought how she had already been stripped of every thing she could call her own . have nothing in my power ! " 2 - " I " I know you have nothing to give ...
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... tears , " and she applied her own handkerchief ; " and see , not a trace of them remains . — Come , I insist upon And Gertrude suffered herself to be led to the drawing - room . it . " The only person with whom she now felt any com ...
... tears , " and she applied her own handkerchief ; " and see , not a trace of them remains . — Come , I insist upon And Gertrude suffered herself to be led to the drawing - room . it . " The only person with whom she now felt any com ...
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... tears , as he was again moving away . 22 " I feel nae displeeshure against you - I am only vexed , and mortified , and disappointed — I had taʼen a liking to you ; but , as the auld sang says , Whene'er you meet a mutual heart , Gold ...
... tears , as he was again moving away . 22 " I feel nae displeeshure against you - I am only vexed , and mortified , and disappointed — I had taʼen a liking to you ; but , as the auld sang says , Whene'er you meet a mutual heart , Gold ...
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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