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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... smile covers an unkind deed ! -while it sometimes happens that we meet with acts of friendship from those who would be ready to “ bandy words with us as a dog . " But how much is it to be regretted when charity and good - will thus ...
... smile covers an unkind deed ! -while it sometimes happens that we meet with acts of friendship from those who would be ready to “ bandy words with us as a dog . " But how much is it to be regretted when charity and good - will thus ...
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... smile- " My doubts are indeed ended - I am now con- firmed in what I have all along suspected : Colonel Delmour loved you from the first as the heiress of Rossville as the Countess of Rossville I have no doubt he will adore you ...
... smile- " My doubts are indeed ended - I am now con- firmed in what I have all along suspected : Colonel Delmour loved you from the first as the heiress of Rossville as the Countess of Rossville I have no doubt he will adore you ...
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... smiling ; - " but I am not at all subject to colds , so don't be alarmed on that account ; and when your servant comes in , she will dry my shoes at your kitchen fire . " " You'll sit a while before you see ony servant 50 THE INHERITANCE .
... smiling ; - " but I am not at all subject to colds , so don't be alarmed on that account ; and when your servant comes in , she will dry my shoes at your kitchen fire . " " You'll sit a while before you see ony servant 50 THE INHERITANCE .
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... smiles , uncle Adam replied— " I set mair value upon my spectacles than my een noo , for I find the ane o ' very little use to me wanting the ither ; but I've forgotten my glasses in my ain hoose , and I canna read ae word o ' thae ...
... smiles , uncle Adam replied— " I set mair value upon my spectacles than my een noo , for I find the ane o ' very little use to me wanting the ither ; but I've forgotten my glasses in my ain hoose , and I canna read ae word o ' thae ...
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... smile . " And uncle Adam gazed and commented , till he gradually lost sight of the moon and the bow , and all the offensive peculiarities of the sylvan goddess , and at length saw only the image of his long - loved Lizzie . From that ...
... smile . " And uncle Adam gazed and commented , till he gradually lost sight of the moon and the bow , and all the offensive peculiarities of the sylvan goddess , and at length saw only the image of his long - loved Lizzie . From that ...
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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