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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... wish to see -give me your arm , and let us return together - I have much to say to you . ' " " " But there is a person there to whom I also have much to say ; and I cannot attend you till I have first spoken with him . " And he was ...
... wish to see -give me your arm , and let us return together - I have much to say to you . ' " " " But there is a person there to whom I also have much to say ; and I cannot attend you till I have first spoken with him . " And he was ...
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... wish , I know , is to befriend my daughter and myself ; and , be assured , I am far from insensible of the value of such a friend . - But , come with me , -I have much to say to you , much to confide to you of my dearest Gertrude ...
... wish , I know , is to befriend my daughter and myself ; and , be assured , I am far from insensible of the value of such a friend . - But , come with me , -I have much to say to you , much to confide to you of my dearest Gertrude ...
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... wish to know where I am likely to find the person who has , twice in my presence , dared to insult her . " " Yet it is only by hearing me patiently , and suffer- ing me to take my own way in divulging the circum- stances of the case as ...
... wish to know where I am likely to find the person who has , twice in my presence , dared to insult her . " " Yet it is only by hearing me patiently , and suffer- ing me to take my own way in divulging the circum- stances of the case as ...
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... wish ? ” Mrs St Clair made a full stop , and looked at Mr Lyndsay in a manner he could not misunderstand . This was something he had not anticipated - it went far beyond what he had calculated upon , and he was thrown off his guard ...
... wish ? ” Mrs St Clair made a full stop , and looked at Mr Lyndsay in a manner he could not misunderstand . This was something he had not anticipated - it went far beyond what he had calculated upon , and he was thrown off his guard ...
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... wish you had seen it - the horses up to their shoulders more than once in the snow even then , and it's now snowing ten times worse than ever -so I leave you to judge how they are to drag a hearse back nine miles at this time of night ...
... wish you had seen it - the horses up to their shoulders more than once in the snow even then , and it's now snowing ten times worse than ever -so I leave you to judge how they are to drag a hearse back nine miles at this time of night ...
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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