The Inheritance, Том 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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... lips must be sealed as to the whole , or you must listen to the whole without interruption . I am mistaken if I tell you any thing new when I allude to my daughter's misplaced partiality ; still more mistaken , if her future happiness ...
... lips must be sealed as to the whole , or you must listen to the whole without interruption . I am mistaken if I tell you any thing new when I allude to my daughter's misplaced partiality ; still more mistaken , if her future happiness ...
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... lips with reverence , while her tears dropped upon it " Oh ! that you could read my heart ! Mr Ramsay , like all caustic people , thought it necessary to be more severe as he felt himself getting soft . " It might soon be better worth ...
... lips with reverence , while her tears dropped upon it " Oh ! that you could read my heart ! Mr Ramsay , like all caustic people , thought it necessary to be more severe as he felt himself getting soft . " It might soon be better worth ...
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... lips belied her when she named her mother , and she shrunk from the idea of appealing to her uncle ; " and , besides , " added she , " I have mamma's solemn assurance that this person has left Scotland , probably for ever ; " but the ...
... lips belied her when she named her mother , and she shrunk from the idea of appealing to her uncle ; " and , besides , " added she , " I have mamma's solemn assurance that this person has left Scotland , probably for ever ; " but the ...
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... lips of the dead ! Would that the living could lay the too tardy reflection to heart ! Gertrude could not blame herself ; but she sorrowed in the sorrow of a warm ingenuous heart that she should ever have offended the pale and peaceful ...
... lips of the dead ! Would that the living could lay the too tardy reflection to heart ! Gertrude could not blame herself ; but she sorrowed in the sorrow of a warm ingenuous heart that she should ever have offended the pale and peaceful ...
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... acknowledging even to herself that she harboured a doubt ; but how many a stranger feel- ing mingles unknown to ourselves with the home - born sentiments of our hearts ! Τ Chapter lip . With an old bachelor , how 46 THE INHERITANCE .
... acknowledging even to herself that she harboured a doubt ; but how many a stranger feel- ing mingles unknown to ourselves with the home - born sentiments of our hearts ! Τ Chapter lip . With an old bachelor , how 46 THE INHERITANCE .
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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