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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... attempt at thus seeming to court ex- planation , that he felt armed against the duplicity he was aware would be practised upon him . " At another time I shall be ready to listen to any thing which concerns Miss St Clair , " said he ...
... attempt at thus seeming to court ex- planation , that he felt armed against the duplicity he was aware would be practised upon him . " At another time I shall be ready to listen to any thing which concerns Miss St Clair , " said he ...
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... " " Lyndsay made no answer ; he felt that Mrs St Clair was weaving a web around him , but he could not bring himself to burst from its folds , and he suffered her to proceed . I " I will not attempt to paint to you 4 THE INHERITANCE .
... " " Lyndsay made no answer ; he felt that Mrs St Clair was weaving a web around him , but he could not bring himself to burst from its folds , and he suffered her to proceed . I " I will not attempt to paint to you 4 THE INHERITANCE .
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Susan Ferrier Reginald Brimley Johnson. I " I will not attempt to paint to you the anguish of my heart at discovering that the innocent affections of my unsuspecting child had been thus artfully and insidiously worked upon by Colonel ...
Susan Ferrier Reginald Brimley Johnson. I " I will not attempt to paint to you the anguish of my heart at discovering that the innocent affections of my unsuspecting child had been thus artfully and insidiously worked upon by Colonel ...
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... attempt , however wild or desperate it may appear ? ? " " I certainly could not blame a sacrifice , however vain it might prove , " said Lyndsay ; " but I must always disapprove of stratagems , even when successful --both together seem ...
... attempt , however wild or desperate it may appear ? ? " " I certainly could not blame a sacrifice , however vain it might prove , " said Lyndsay ; " but I must always disapprove of stratagems , even when successful --both together seem ...
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... attempt to argue or remon- strate ; but , waving her hand with a sort of desperate calmness , she merely said- " I am answered - leave me . " 66 Oh , mamma ! —give me the obeyed - tell me what I must say . paper - you shall be Mrs St ...
... attempt to argue or remon- strate ; but , waving her hand with a sort of desperate calmness , she merely said- " I am answered - leave me . " 66 Oh , mamma ! —give me the obeyed - tell me what I must say . paper - you shall be Mrs St ...
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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