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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... dress ; while Lyndsay , as he walked openly and deliberately to his apartment , thought " She has got the better of me , I fear , after all - but to - morrow will show . " A Chapter lij . Such deep despondence rends her trembling heart ...
... dress ; while Lyndsay , as he walked openly and deliberately to his apartment , thought " She has got the better of me , I fear , after all - but to - morrow will show . " A Chapter lij . Such deep despondence rends her trembling heart ...
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... her ear , to which she replied with a blush and a smile ; then , calling his servant , said he should go to dress , while she repaired to her mother's apartment . Chapter Ixvij . O ! how this spring of life 100 THE INHERITANCE .
... her ear , to which she replied with a blush and a smile ; then , calling his servant , said he should go to dress , while she repaired to her mother's apartment . Chapter Ixvij . O ! how this spring of life 100 THE INHERITANCE .
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... love ; " and she kissed her forehead . To avoid farther contention , Gertrude hastened to her apartment to dress , and recover her composure as she best could . Chapter lxviij . My soul , sit thou a patient 104 THE INHERITANCE .
... love ; " and she kissed her forehead . To avoid farther contention , Gertrude hastened to her apartment to dress , and recover her composure as she best could . Chapter lxviij . My soul , sit thou a patient 104 THE INHERITANCE .
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... dress a little pine for you in the way you used to like it abroad ; " and taking off her gloves , and displaying her large , round , white arms , all glittering in rings and bracelets , she began to cut up a pine - apple , and show her ...
... dress a little pine for you in the way you used to like it abroad ; " and taking off her gloves , and displaying her large , round , white arms , all glittering in rings and bracelets , she began to cut up a pine - apple , and show her ...
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... dress fashionable and expen- sive - she herself very pretty ; the Major's rank was respectable - his connections were good - and though they were both fools , yet a fool in satin was a very different thing from a fool in sackcloth , and ...
... dress fashionable and expen- sive - she herself very pretty ; the Major's rank was respectable - his connections were good - and though they were both fools , yet a fool in satin was a very different thing from a fool in sackcloth , and ...
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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