title: The Nine Inheritors: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Family and Their Ancient Torah Scroll
author: Claire Datnow
description: Claire Klein Datnow was born and raised in South Africa. Her first published worked appeared in the Johannesburg daily newspaper, promoting the cause of game preservation. She was surprised by the twenty rand (about $50.00) she received for the article, which made an entire page with a handsome picture of the rhino photographed by her husband. She taught creative writing to gifted and talented students, and now writes full time. She is the proud grandmother of six precious granddaughters. She and her husband live and pursue their avocationsnature and travel photography and videographyon a mountaintop in Birmingham, Alabama
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  Devereux
  
  
  [ADVERTISEMENT TO THE PRESENT EDITION.](Devereux_split_001.html#filepos21953)
  
  [DEDICATORY EPISTLE](Devereux_split_001.html#filepos23159)
  
  [THE AUTOBIOGRAPHER'S INTRODUCTION.](Devereux_split_001.html#filepos32121)
  
  [NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION (1852).](Devereux_split_001.html#filepos34909)
  
  
  [DEVEREUX.](Devereux_split_002.html#filepos40375)
  
  [BOOK I.](Devereux_split_003.html#filepos40493)
  
  
    
    
  [CHAPTER I. OF THE HERO'S BIRTH AND
  
  
  PARENTAGE.—NOTHING CAN DIFFER MORE FROM THE END OF THINGS THAN THEIR
  
  
  BEGINNING.  
    
  [CHAPTER II. A FAMILY CONSULTATION.—A PRIEST, AND
  
  
  AN ERA IN LIFE.  
    
  [CHAPTER III. A CHANGE IN CONDUCT AND IN CHARACTER:
  
  
  OUR EVIL PASSIONS WILL SOMETIMES PRODUCE GOOD EFFECTS; AND ON THE
  
  
  CONTRARY, AN ALTERATION FOR THE BETTER IN MANNERS WILL, NOT
  
  
  UNFREQUENTLY, HAVE AMONGST ITS CAUSES A LITTLE CORRUPTION OF MIND; FOR
  
  
  THE FEELINGS ARE SO BLENDED THAT, IN SUPPRESSING THOSE DISAGREEABLE TO
  
  
  OTHER