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The Inheritance

by Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER (1782 - 1854)

Volume III. Chapter XVIII

"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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Volume III. Chapter XIX , 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