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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... speak ― her heart sickened at the evil she anticipated . " But I will not go over the same ground I have done : -I tell you , I am at your mercy ; but I will neither supplicate nor command - I leave you free- pronounce my doom , and do ...
... speak ― her heart sickened at the evil she anticipated . " But I will not go over the same ground I have done : -I tell you , I am at your mercy ; but I will neither supplicate nor command - I leave you free- pronounce my doom , and do ...
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... speak the truth . " Gertrude felt her very temples glow at this igno- minious question ; and , without speaking , there was something in her look and gesture which dispelled the old man's hasty suspicion . " There's the money , then ...
... speak the truth . " Gertrude felt her very temples glow at this igno- minious question ; and , without speaking , there was something in her look and gesture which dispelled the old man's hasty suspicion . " There's the money , then ...
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... speaking terms . - Well , although I am no great admirer , scarcely a believer , in Platonics in general - yet there may be exceptions , when there is Methodism in the case ; -you may , therefore , indulge in a sentimental religious ...
... speaking terms . - Well , although I am no great admirer , scarcely a believer , in Platonics in general - yet there may be exceptions , when there is Methodism in the case ; -you may , therefore , indulge in a sentimental religious ...
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... friend and well - wisher , & c . & c . & c . There was one drawer in particular , the right - hand drawer of his writing - table , the end next the window - she had several times , when she had occasion to speak to him 38 THE INHERITANCE .
... friend and well - wisher , & c . & c . & c . There was one drawer in particular , the right - hand drawer of his writing - table , the end next the window - she had several times , when she had occasion to speak to him 38 THE INHERITANCE .
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Susan Ferrier Reginald Brimley Johnson. times , when she had occasion to speak to him in his study , found him busy there . - Poor man ! the very last time she saw him there , he was working amongst some papers in that very drawer - she ...
Susan Ferrier Reginald Brimley Johnson. times , when she had occasion to speak to him in his study , found him busy there . - Poor man ! the very last time she saw him there , he was working amongst some papers in that very drawer - she ...
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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