The Inheritance

"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.

By : Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier (1782 - 1854)

001 - Volume I. Chapter I



002 - Volume I. Chapter II



003 - Volume I. Chapter III



004 - Volume I. Chapter IV



005 - Volume I. Chapter V



006 - Volume I. Chapter VI



007 - Volume I. Chapter VII



008 - Volume I. Chapter VIII



009 - Volume I. Chapter IX



010 - Volume I. Chapter X



011 - Volume I. Chapter XI



012 - Volume I. Chapter XII



013 - Volume I. Chapter XIII



014 - Volume I. Chapter XIV



015 - Volume I. Chapter XV



016 - Volume I. Chapter XVI



017 - Volume I. Chapter XVII



018 - Volume I. Chapter XVIII



019 - Volume I. Chapter XIX



020 - Volume I. Chapter XX



021 - Volume I. Chapter XXI



022 - Volume I. Chapter XXII



023 - Volume I. Chapter XXIII



024 - Volume I. Chapter XXIV



025 - Volume I. Chapter XXV



026 - Volume I. Chapter XXVI



027 - Volume I. Chapter XXVII



028 - Volume I. Chapter XXVIII



029 - Volume I. Chapter XXIX



030 - Volume I. Chapter XXX



031 - Volume I. Chapter XXXI



032 - Volume I. Chapter XXXII



033 - Volume I. Chapter XXXIII



034 - Volume I. Chapter XXXIV



035 - Volume II. Chapter I



036 - Volume II. Chapter II



037 - Volume II. Chapter III



038 - Volume II. Chapter IV



039 - Volume II. Chapter V



040 - Volume II. Chapter VI



041 - Volume II. Chapter VII



042 - Volume II. Chapter VIII



043 - Volume II. Chapter IX



044 - Volume II. Chapter X



045 - Volume II. Chapter XI



046 - Volume II. Chapter XII



047 - Volume II. Chapter XIII



048 - Volume II. Chapter XIV



049 - Volume II. Chapter XV



050 - Volume II. Chapter XVI



051 - Volume II. Chapter XVII



052 - Volume II. Chapter XVIII



053 - Volume II. Chapter XIX



054 - Volume II. Chapter XX



055 - Volume II. Chapter XXI



056 - Volume II. Chapter XXII



057 - Volume II. Chapter XXIII



058 - Volume II. Chapter XXIV



059 - Volume II. Chapter XXV



060 - Volume II. Chapter XXVI



061 - Volume II. Chapter XXVII



062 - Volume II. Chapter XXVIII



063 - Volume II. Chapter XXIX



064 - Volume II. Chapter XXX



065 - Volume II. Chapter XXXI



066 - Volume II. Chapter XXXII



067 - Volume II. Chapter XXXIII



068 - Volume II. Chapter XXXIV



069 - Volume II. Chapter XXXV



070 - Volume II. Chapter XXXVI



071 - Volume II. Chapter XXXVII



072 - Volume III. Chapter I



073 - Volume III. Chapter II



074 - Volume III. Chapter III



075 - Volume III. Chapter IV



076 - Volume III. Chapter V



077 - Volume III. Chapter VI



078 - Volume III. Chapter VII



079 - Volume III. Chapter VIII



080 - Volume III. Chapter IX



081 - Volume III. Chapter X



082 - Volume III. Chapter XI



083 - Volume III. Chapter XII



084 - Volume III. Chapter XIII



085 - Volume III. Chapter XIV



086 - Volume III. Chapter XV



087 - Volume III. Chapter XVI



088 - Volume III. Chapter XVII



089 - Volume III. Chapter XVIII



090 - Volume III. Chapter XIX



091 - Volume III. Chapter XX



092 - Volume III. Chapter XXI



093 - Volume III. Chapter XXII



094 - Volume III. Chapter XXIII



095 - Volume III. Chapter XXIV



096 - Volume III. Chapter XXV



097 - Volume III. Chapter XXVI



098 - Volume III. Chapter XXVII



099 - Volume III. Chapter XXVIII



100 - Volume III. Chapter XXIX



101 - Volume III. Chapter XXX



102 - Volume III. Chapter XXXI



103 - Volume III. Chapter XXXII



104 - Volume III. Chapter XXXIII



105 - Volume III. Chapter XXXIV



106 - Volume III. Chapter XXXV

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