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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... repeated it , and she thought she read doubt and distrust in the manner in which he received it . Without expressing their mutual thoughts , both felt that sort of intuitive knowledge of what was passing in each other's minds , which ...
... repeated it , and she thought she read doubt and distrust in the manner in which he received it . Without expressing their mutual thoughts , both felt that sort of intuitive knowledge of what was passing in each other's minds , which ...
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... repeated , in a manner enough to have raised even the drowsy porter in Macbeth — but with no better success . At length the servant turned away in despair . " There is nobody within , my lady . " THE INHERITANCE . 47 Chapter lip. ...
... repeated , in a manner enough to have raised even the drowsy porter in Macbeth — but with no better success . At length the servant turned away in despair . " There is nobody within , my lady . " THE INHERITANCE . 47 Chapter lip. ...
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... repeated uncle Adam , stopping short , and looking almost black with wrath , - " I'm mair than disappointed - I'm perfectly disgusted ! " taking another look- " Lizzie Lundie was Then a daacent , wise - like , sensible craater , THE ...
... repeated uncle Adam , stopping short , and looking almost black with wrath , - " I'm mair than disappointed - I'm perfectly disgusted ! " taking another look- " Lizzie Lundie was Then a daacent , wise - like , sensible craater , THE ...
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... repeated , so condescendingly profound , and with such an air of high breeding , as formed a ludicrous contrast to uncle Adam's awkward repulsive gait , and dry uncouth manner . The latter possessed too much tact not to feel what was ...
... repeated , so condescendingly profound , and with such an air of high breeding , as formed a ludicrous contrast to uncle Adam's awkward repulsive gait , and dry uncouth manner . The latter possessed too much tact not to feel what was ...
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... repeated , when , after a struggle to regain . her composure , she said— " This house , and all that I call mine , is yours to command ; but my affections , my liberty , will brook no controul . For this day I submit to be a prisoner in ...
... repeated , when , after a struggle to regain . her composure , she said— " This house , and all that I call mine , is yours to command ; but my affections , my liberty , will brook no controul . For this day I submit to be a prisoner in ...
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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