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The Inheritance

by Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER (1782 - 1854)

Volume I. Chapter XIX

"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the honorable Thomas St. Clair, the youngest son of the Earl of Rossville, with the humble Miss Sarah Black, a beautiful girl of obscure origin and no fortune." And so the stage is set for our plot, which focuses on the implications and complications of the return from France to Scotland of the Rossville widow and her daughter-heiress Gertrude, who must suffer the onslaught of relations and suitors as well as a mysterious, threatening stranger who plagues her mother. And while we suffer with Gertrude, who also may be in love with the wrong man, we enjoy a myriad of wonderful satiric portraits of the menagerie of minor characters in this lively story. (Summary by Jim Locke)

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Listen next episodes of The Inheritance:
Volume I. Chapter XX , Volume I. Chapter XXI , Volume I. Chapter XXII , Volume I. Chapter XXIII , Volume I. Chapter XXIV , Volume I. Chapter XXIX , Volume I. Chapter XXV , Volume I. Chapter XXVI , Volume I. Chapter XXVII , Volume I. Chapter XXVIII , Volume I. Chapter XXX , Volume I. Chapter XXXI , Volume I. Chapter XXXII , Volume I. Chapter XXXIII , Volume I. Chapter XXXIV , Volume II. Chapter I , Volume II. Chapter II , Volume II. Chapter III , Volume II. Chapter IV , Volume II. Chapter IX , Volume II. Chapter V , Volume II. Chapter VI , Volume II. Chapter VII , Volume II. Chapter VIII , Volume II. Chapter X , Volume II. Chapter XI , Volume II. Chapter XII , Volume II. Chapter XIII , Volume II. Chapter XIV , Volume II. Chapter XIX , Volume II. Chapter XV , Volume II. Chapter XVI , Volume II. Chapter XVII , Volume II. Chapter XVIII , Volume II. Chapter XX , Volume II. Chapter XXI , Volume II. Chapter XXII , Volume II. Chapter XXIII , Volume II. Chapter XXIV , Volume II. Chapter XXIX , Volume II. Chapter XXV , Volume II. Chapter XXVI , Volume II. Chapter XXVII , Volume II. Chapter XXVIII , Volume II. Chapter XXX , Volume II. Chapter XXXI , Volume II. Chapter XXXII , Volume II. Chapter XXXIII , Volume II. Chapter XXXIV , Volume II. Chapter XXXV , Volume II. Chapter XXXVI , Volume II. Chapter XXXVII , Volume III. Chapter I , Volume III. Chapter II , Volume III. Chapter III , Volume III. Chapter IV , Volume III. Chapter IX , Volume III. Chapter V , Volume III. Chapter VI , Volume III. Chapter VII , Volume III. Chapter VIII , Volume III. Chapter X , Volume III. Chapter XI , Volume III. Chapter XII , Volume III. Chapter XIII , Volume III. Chapter XIV , Volume III. Chapter XIX , Volume III. Chapter XV , Volume III. Chapter XVI , Volume III. Chapter XVII , Volume III. Chapter XVIII , Volume III. Chapter XX , Volume III. Chapter XXI , Volume III. Chapter XXII , Volume III. Chapter XXIII , Volume III. Chapter XXIV , Volume III. Chapter XXIX , Volume III. Chapter XXV , Volume III. Chapter XXVI , Volume III. Chapter XXVII , Volume III. Chapter XXVIII , Volume III. Chapter XXX , Volume III. Chapter XXXI , Volume III. Chapter XXXII , Volume III. Chapter XXXIII , Volume III. Chapter XXXIV , Volume III. Chapter XXXV