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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... usual , and passed for a very worthy , sensible , affable old lady . Miss St Clair sat silent and absent , and indifferent to what was going on , and was pronounced a cold , haughty , insipid automaton . Such are the judgments daily ...
... usual , and passed for a very worthy , sensible , affable old lady . Miss St Clair sat silent and absent , and indifferent to what was going on , and was pronounced a cold , haughty , insipid automaton . Such are the judgments daily ...
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... muckle discretion ; " and his features gradually relaxed into a more benign expres- sion , as he slowly took out his spectacles to peruse the bill ; when , suddenly resuming their usual stormy cast II . D THE INHERITANCE . 49 "" ...
... muckle discretion ; " and his features gradually relaxed into a more benign expres- sion , as he slowly took out his spectacles to peruse the bill ; when , suddenly resuming their usual stormy cast II . D THE INHERITANCE . 49 "" ...
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Susan Ferrier Reginald Brimley Johnson. bill ; when , suddenly resuming their usual stormy cast " What's this ? " cried he ; " whar's the interest for my money ? " In great confusion at this unthought - of demand , Gertrude apologised by ...
Susan Ferrier Reginald Brimley Johnson. bill ; when , suddenly resuming their usual stormy cast " What's this ? " cried he ; " whar's the interest for my money ? " In great confusion at this unthought - of demand , Gertrude apologised by ...
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... usual fretful and gloomy - but , on returning , she was struck with the change which , in the course of a few hours , had taken place . Her countenance was lightened - her air was almost joyous ; and though some slight traces of ...
... usual fretful and gloomy - but , on returning , she was struck with the change which , in the course of a few hours , had taken place . Her countenance was lightened - her air was almost joyous ; and though some slight traces of ...
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... usual terms , a most elaborate and high- drawn narrative of the wreck of the Dauntless Packet , bound for America , on the coast of Ireland , when every soul on board had perished . Several pieces of the wreck , and some of the bodies ...
... usual terms , a most elaborate and high- drawn narrative of the wreck of the Dauntless Packet , bound for America , on the coast of Ireland , when every soul on board had perished . Several pieces of the wreck , and some of the bodies ...
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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