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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... turning round , she pressed Lyndsay's hand , and in breathless accents whispered , " For Ger- trude's sake , then , you will be silent till to - morrow- you promise me this . " " Till to - morrow , then , be it , " said he . Mrs St ...
... turning round , she pressed Lyndsay's hand , and in breathless accents whispered , " For Ger- trude's sake , then , you will be silent till to - morrow- you promise me this . " " Till to - morrow , then , be it , " said he . Mrs St ...
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... turned it away . He said nothing , but left his station , which was soon taken by Mr Delmour , to whose insipid verbiage she listened with sustained interest , in hopes of hearing the subject renewed . But nothing more was said . Mr ...
... turned it away . He said nothing , but left his station , which was soon taken by Mr Delmour , to whose insipid verbiage she listened with sustained interest , in hopes of hearing the subject renewed . But nothing more was said . Mr ...
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... turned from the dead to the living ; for there was lifted out- not a slovenly unhandsome corpse , betwixt the wind and his nobility , " but the warm , sentient , though somewhat discomfited , figure of Miss Pratt . All uttered some ...
... turned from the dead to the living ; for there was lifted out- not a slovenly unhandsome corpse , betwixt the wind and his nobility , " but the warm , sentient , though somewhat discomfited , figure of Miss Pratt . All uttered some ...
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... turning and chafing herself before the fire . " Miss Pratt , " again began the Earl , mustering all his energies " Miss Pratt , it is altogether inconceiv- able and inexplicable to me how you , or any one else , could possibly so far ...
... turning and chafing herself before the fire . " Miss Pratt , " again began the Earl , mustering all his energies " Miss Pratt , it is altogether inconceiv- able and inexplicable to me how you , or any one else , could possibly so far ...
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... turned to the answer to this , in the well - known , careless , elegant hand of her lover . It was short expressed the deepest regret at having incurred his uncle's displeasure - pleaded the excess of his passion as the only excuse ...
... turned to the answer to this , in the well - known , careless , elegant hand of her lover . It was short expressed the deepest regret at having incurred his uncle's displeasure - pleaded the excess of his passion as the only excuse ...
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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