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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... perhaps I would not . No good could possibly result from your meeting . -Your 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 ...
... perhaps I would not . No good could possibly result from your meeting . -Your 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 ...
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... perhaps come , " cried Miss St Clair , in increasing agitation , " when I shall be able to con- vince you that I am not to blame - in the meantime , if you will trust me- " Dinna think it's the money I care for , " inter- rupted Mr ...
... perhaps come , " cried Miss St Clair , in increasing agitation , " when I shall be able to con- vince you that I am not to blame - in the meantime , if you will trust me- " Dinna think it's the money I care for , " inter- rupted Mr ...
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... perhaps in danger - for me ? -already you have risked your life to save mine . — No , leave me to my fate , whatever it is . " , " I hate the word fate , " said Lyndsay ; " like chance , it is a word easily pronounced , but nothing more ...
... perhaps in danger - for me ? -already you have risked your life to save mine . — No , leave me to my fate , whatever it is . " , " I hate the word fate , " said Lyndsay ; " like chance , it is a word easily pronounced , but nothing more ...
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... Perhaps , on the late occasion , no one felt more chagrined at this failure of the Earl's than Miss Pratt . Although there was little difference in their ages , yet from being of a lighter and more active nature , she had always looked ...
... Perhaps , on the late occasion , no one felt more chagrined at this failure of the Earl's than Miss Pratt . Although there was little difference in their ages , yet from being of a lighter and more active nature , she had always looked ...
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... perhaps faulty , he may have been but to doubt that he loves me- -there I will receive no one's testimony but his own . " " " " " " Then you are lost ! " exclaimed Mrs St Clair , in violent agitation . " But it must not - shall not be ...
... perhaps faulty , he may have been but to doubt that he loves me- -there I will receive no one's testimony but his own . " " " " " " Then you are lost ! " exclaimed Mrs St Clair , in violent agitation . " But it must not - shall not be ...
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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