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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... returned , bringing a band of his second - rate political allies along with him ; and the con- versation consequently took its cast from them , and was as dull as political discussions always are , unless when worse than dull - violent ...
... returned , bringing a band of his second - rate political allies along with him ; and the con- versation consequently took its cast from them , and was as dull as political discussions always are , unless when worse than dull - violent ...
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... returned . This disappointment was only a passing knell , as the thought suggested itself that uncle Adam might not think proper to trust a bill for five hundred pounds to the post , and would most probably send it by a special ...
... returned . This disappointment was only a passing knell , as the thought suggested itself that uncle Adam might not think proper to trust a bill for five hundred pounds to the post , and would most probably send it by a special ...
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... returning home . But , before he went , he sought an interview with Miss St Clair . " I flattered myself , " said he , " that before I lost sight of you again , I should at least have had the satis- faction of knowing the nature of the ...
... returning home . But , before he went , he sought an interview with Miss St Clair . " I flattered myself , " said he , " that before I lost sight of you again , I should at least have had the satis- faction of knowing the nature of the ...
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... returned to bed , but not to sleep- and when his servant entered in the morning , he found his master a lifeless corse . Whence it came , who can tell ? Whether from cold , apoplexy , mental disquiet , or irreversible decree ? " When ...
... returned to bed , but not to sleep- and when his servant entered in the morning , he found his master a lifeless corse . Whence it came , who can tell ? Whether from cold , apoplexy , mental disquiet , or irreversible decree ? " When ...
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... returning as speedily as the nature of the mournful circumstances under which he was called away would permit - concluding with the hope that , whenever pro- priety sanctioned the fulfilling of his late lamented uncle's intentions , his ...
... returning as speedily as the nature of the mournful circumstances under which he was called away would permit - concluding with the hope that , whenever pro- priety sanctioned the fulfilling of his late lamented uncle's intentions , his ...
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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