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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... Lewiston ; and , sinking at her feet , in wild broken accents she besought her to spare her . " Compose yourself , Gertrude , " cried Mrs St Clair , suddenly calmed herself at sight of her daughter's still stronger emotion- " I tell you ...
... Lewiston ; and , sinking at her feet , in wild broken accents she besought her to spare her . " Compose yourself , Gertrude , " cried Mrs St Clair , suddenly calmed herself at sight of her daughter's still stronger emotion- " I tell you ...
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... Lewiston ? " " Because I have it under his own hand that he had actually engaged his passage in that very vessel ; and it is surely very improbable that there should have been two men on board a small packet answering so com- pletely to ...
... Lewiston ? " " Because I have it under his own hand that he had actually engaged his passage in that very vessel ; and it is surely very improbable that there should have been two men on board a small packet answering so com- pletely to ...
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... Lewiston is gone , but his power remains . " Lady Rossville remained silent , but tears fell from her eyes ; at length she said , " I am no longer a child to be frightened by a bug- bear - either tell me who this person really was , and ...
... Lewiston is gone , but his power remains . " Lady Rossville remained silent , but tears fell from her eyes ; at length she said , " I am no longer a child to be frightened by a bug- bear - either tell me who this person really was , and ...
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... sort of mutual understanding that all relating to the unfortunate Lewiston was to be consigned to oblivion . Mrs St Clair was not to be urged to any explanation till she should see fit to make it - and Lady THE INHERITANCE . 59.
... sort of mutual understanding that all relating to the unfortunate Lewiston was to be consigned to oblivion . Mrs St Clair was not to be urged to any explanation till she should see fit to make it - and Lady THE INHERITANCE . 59.
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... Lewiston . " " " " " So far , then , I shall leave you with a lightened mind , said Lyndsay ; " there seems no more to apprehend from that quarter at least . — If there are other dangers- But at that moment a post - chaise and four ...
... Lewiston . " " " " " So far , then , I shall leave you with a lightened mind , said Lyndsay ; " there seems no more to apprehend from that quarter at least . — If there are other dangers- But at that moment a post - chaise and four ...
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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