A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to students by a scarcely adequate landlady. Enter Gustave, a young provincial, arriving in Paris supposedly to study law, but in reality as the proposed husband of the dour and unattractive daughter of his sponsor. Unable to tolerate the life arranged for him, Gustave quits the boarding house but recommends it to a mysterious young English widow who approaches him for assistance. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Book The First Chapter 1 Lenoble of Beaubocage
37:25 - Chapter 2
Book The First Chapter 2 In this Wide World I Stand Alone
19:54 - Chapter 3
Book The First Chapter 3 Past Hope, and in Despair
47:20 - Chapter 4
Book The First Chapter 4 A Decree of Banishment
09:10 - Chapter 5
Book The Second Chapter 1 The Fate of Susan Lenoble
13:23 - Chapter 6
Book The Second Chapter 2 Forgiven Too Late
16:49 - Chapter 7
Book The Second Chapter 3 Gustave The Second
11:26 - Chapter 8
Book The Third Chapter 1 Chiefly Retrospective
12:42 - Chapter 9
Book The Third Chapter 2 Epistolary
25:44 - Chapter 10
Book The Third Chapter 3 Too Clever for a Catspaw
10:33 - Chapter 11
Book The Third Chapter 4 Captain Paget is Paternal
15:11 - Chapter 12
Book The Third Chapter 5 The Captain's Coadjutor
20:26 - Chapter 13
Book The Fourth Chapter 1 Halcyon Days
12:20 - Chapter 14
Book The Fourth Chapter 2 Captain Paget Awakens to a Sense of His Duty
28:11 - Chapter 15
Book The Fourth Chapter 3 What do we Here, my Heart and I?
29:59 - Chapter 16
Book The Fourth Chapter 4 Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth
43:06 - Chapter 17
Book The Fifth Chapter 1 Taken by Storm
29:32 - Chapter 18
Book The Fifth Chapter 2 Firm as a Book
18:55 - Chapter 19
Book The Fifth Chapter 3 Against Wind and Tide
18:15 - Chapter 20
Book The Fifth Chapter 4 Diana Asks for a Holiday
08:36 - Chapter 21
Book The Fifth Chapter 5 Assurance Doubly Sure
16:23 - Chapter 22
Book The Sixth At Cotenoir
25:40 - Chapter 23
Book The Seventh Chapter 1 The Beginning of Sorrow
29:13 - Chapter 24
Book The Seventh Chapter 2 Fading
16:11 - Chapter 25
Book The Seventh Chapter 3 Mrs. Woolper is Anxious
19:41 - Chapter 26
Book The Seventh Chapter 4 Valentine's Skeleton
18:53 - Chapter 27
Book The Seventh Chapter 5 At Harold's Hill
27:43 - Chapter 28
Book The Seventh Chapter 6 Desperate Measures
23:14 - Chapter 29
Book The Eighth Chapter 1 A Dread Revelation
48:55 - Chapter 30
Book The Eighth Chapter 2 Phoenicians are Rising
11:00 - Chapter 31
Book The Eighth Chapter 3 The Sortes Virgilianae
25:56 - Chapter 32
Book The Ninth Chapter 1 Something Too Much
13:08 - Chapter 33
Book The Ninth Chapter 2 Dr. Jedd's Opinion
18:05 - Chapter 34
Book The Ninth Chapter 3 Non Dormit Judas
19:42 - Chapter 35
Book The Ninth Chapter 4 Counting the Cost
12:19 - Chapter 36
Book The Ninth Chapter 5 The Beginning of the End
13:45 - Chapter 37
Book The Ninth Chapter 6 Confusion Worse Confounded
13:20 - Chapter 38
Book The Ninth Chapter 7 There is a Word Will Priam Turn to Stone
21:59 - Chapter 39
Book The Tenth Chapter 1 Out of the Dark Valley
15:16 - Chapter 40
Book The Tenth Chapter 2 After the Wedding
13:33 - Chapter 41
Book The Tenth Chapter 3 Greek Against Greek
10:17 - Chapter 42
Book The Tenth Chapter 4 Only a Dream
36:22 - Chapter 43
Book The Tenth Chapter 5 Bohemian Independence
07:23 - Chapter 44
Book The Tenth Chapter 6 Beyond the Veil
06:13 - Chapter 45
Book The Tenth Chapter 7 Better than Gold
21:37 - Chapter 46
Book The Tenth Chapter 8 Lost Sight Of
12:52 - Chapter 47
Book The Tenth Chapter 9 Eteocles and Polynices
27:31 - Chapter 48
Book The Tenth Chapter 10 'According to their Deeds'
14:03