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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... told you , and I again repeat it the circumstances which have placed me there I will only disclose with my dying breath , if even then ; -how soon that may be , depends upon your decision . I cannot conceal from you that he does pos ...
... told you , and I again repeat it the circumstances which have placed me there I will only disclose with my dying breath , if even then ; -how soon that may be , depends upon your decision . I cannot conceal from you that he does pos ...
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... told compliments of Mr Delmour . " Is this life ? " sighed she- " Ah ! how different from what I had pictured it to myself ! — ' And thus I am absorbed , and this is life ! ' " But Gertrude only felt what all persons of acute ...
... told compliments of Mr Delmour . " Is this life ? " sighed she- " Ah ! how different from what I had pictured it to myself ! — ' And thus I am absorbed , and this is life ! ' " But Gertrude only felt what all persons of acute ...
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... told me himself - such he once was - till - till he loved . " Mrs St Clair groaned . " Then whose testimony will you admit , since you reject mine ? —You reject Mr Lyndsay's you reject that of the whole world . " " I will receive none ...
... told me himself - such he once was - till - till he loved . " Mrs St Clair groaned . " Then whose testimony will you admit , since you reject mine ? —You reject Mr Lyndsay's you reject that of the whole world . " " I will receive none ...
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... told him of the picture he would see at Rossville of her he had so truly loved , and the right string was touched . A silken thread might have led uncle Adam over half the globe when Lizzie Lundie was paramount . His little preparations ...
... told him of the picture he would see at Rossville of her he had so truly loved , and the right string was touched . A silken thread might have led uncle Adam over half the globe when Lizzie Lundie was paramount . His little preparations ...
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... told you how much good you may do by remaining here . ' " " " " " No - it never tells me such flattering tales ; that is the province of hope or fancy , and sometimes , perhaps , I may have been weak enough to listen to their idle tales ...
... told you how much good you may do by remaining here . ' " " " " " No - it never tells me such flattering tales ; that is the province of hope or fancy , and sometimes , perhaps , I may have been weak enough to listen to their idle tales ...
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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