The Inheritance, Volume 2J.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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... Johnson. PAGE 49 99 THE INHERITANCE . Chapter li . What man so wise. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . GERTRUDE REPAYS UNCLE ADAM MISS PRATT OVERHEARS GERTRUDE · GERTRUDE TELLS DELMOUR OF HER PARENTAGE PR 4699 F4 IS 1894 v2 • 162 291.
... Johnson. PAGE 49 99 THE INHERITANCE . Chapter li . What man so wise. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . GERTRUDE REPAYS UNCLE ADAM MISS PRATT OVERHEARS GERTRUDE · GERTRUDE TELLS DELMOUR OF HER PARENTAGE PR 4699 F4 IS 1894 v2 • 162 291.
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... Gertrude ! cried she , all at once giving way to her agitation " again you see me in your hands again my fate hangs on your decision - again it is yours to save or to destroy me ? " Gertrude could not speak ― her heart sickened at the ...
... Gertrude ! cried she , all at once giving way to her agitation " again you see me in your hands again my fate hangs on your decision - again it is yours to save or to destroy me ? " Gertrude could not speak ― her heart sickened at the ...
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... Gertrude , " cried Mrs St Clair , suddenly calmed herself at sight of her daughter's still stronger emotion- " I tell you you have nothing to fear from me — I have promised that I will not even seek to influence you ; all I require of ...
... Gertrude , " cried Mrs St Clair , suddenly calmed herself at sight of her daughter's still stronger emotion- " I tell you you have nothing to fear from me — I have promised that I will not even seek to influence you ; all I require of ...
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... Gertrude loved with all the delusion of romance , and , like many a young enthusiast , had mistaken her imagination for her mind . To have saved her from the fatal consequences of such infatuation he would have made any sacrifice , but ...
... Gertrude loved with all the delusion of romance , and , like many a young enthusiast , had mistaken her imagination for her mind . To have saved her from the fatal consequences of such infatuation he would have made any sacrifice , but ...
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... Gertrude therefore stationed herself at the window , to watch the arrival of any one likely to be the bearer of the important despatch . Not sister Anne herself looked with more wistful eyes , or was oftener called upon to declare what ...
... Gertrude therefore stationed herself at the window , to watch the arrival of any one likely to be the bearer of the important despatch . Not sister Anne herself looked with more wistful eyes , or was oftener called upon to declare what ...
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agitation agony Anne Anne Black answer Anthony Whyte assure Augusta beauty 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 hope instantly Lady Betty Lady Charles Lady Rossville Lady Rossville's ladyship Larkins laudanum leave length Lewiston lips look Lord Rossville lover Lyndsay Lyndsay's Major Waddell mamma manner Masham maun ment Millbank mind Miss Pratt morning 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-day told tone trude turned uncle Adam uttered voice weel wish words