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* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Crockett refers in his dedication to "nigh half a century ago", suggesting the late 1840s, but the story clearly takes place in the same timeframe as his earlier novel ''A Galloway Herd'', which was set in the early 1870s.
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In 1840s Galloway, hard-up young medical student Alec [=McQuhirr=] falls for farmer's daughter Nance Chrystie, but her father has other ideas.
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In 1840s mid Victorian Galloway, hard-up young medical student Alec [=McQuhirr=] falls for farmer's daughter Nance Chrystie, but her father has other ideas.
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* NostalgicNarrator: The older Alec, looking back fondly on his youth. (It seems at first as if he's looking back from 1897 but is later clarified to be just a few years after the main narrative.)
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* NostalgicNarrator: The older Alec, looking back fondly on his youth. (It seems at first as if he's looking back from 1897 but is later clarified to be just a few years after the main narrative.)
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* PapaWolf: Rab Anderson will stop at nothing to defend or avenge the Hoolet's honour.
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* SiblingTriangle: Averted: Crockett teases the possibility that the Hempie will be jealous of Alec transferring his affections to her sister Nance, but she ends up as their strongest ally and remains Alec's [[BestFriendsInLaw best]] [[AmicableExes friend]].
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* LetOffByTheDetective: When [[spoiler:Rab]] admits the assault on [[spoiler:Nathan Murdoch]], the Fiscal judging the case is careful to give him time to get away before raising hue and cry.
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* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: After recovering from his head injury, [[spoiler:Nathan Murdoch]] has lost most of his memories - which is effectively a happy ending given [[{{Slimeball}} what he was like before]]. [[spoiler:The Hoolet]] ends up as his carer, probably a better fate than being married to the man he used to be.
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* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:Nathan Murdoch]]'s seduction-by-deceit of [[spoiler:the Hoolet]] gets him a near-fatal [[spoiler:bash on the head from her father Rab]].
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* OnlyMostlyDead: Both [[spoiler:the Hoolet and Nathan Murdoch]], in quick succession, are brought back from apparent death.
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* LeonineContract: An unusually sympathetic example. When Peter threatens to cut Nance off without a penny if she marries Alec, the Hempie [[spoiler:pitches him into a peat bog and refuses to rescue him without a written promise of a generous marriage settlement]]. It's unclear how much real danger he's in, but he certainly claims that he will drown if not helped out.
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* BestFriendsInLaw: Nance's sister the Hempie is Alec's closest friend.
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* NostalgicNarrator: The elderly Alec in 1897, looking back fondly on his youth fifty years earlier.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Hempie, the Hoolet, and the Deil go most of the story without their given names being mentioned.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Hempie, the Hoolet, and the Deil go most of the story without their given names being mentioned.
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* NostalgicNarrator: The elderly Alec in 1897, older Alec, looking back fondly on his youth fifty youth. (It seems at first as if he's looking back from 1897 but is later clarified to be just a few years earlier.
after the main narrative.)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Hempie, the Hoolet, and the Deil go most of the story without their given names being mentioned. (Indeed, we ''never'' find out the Deil's.)
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Hempie, the Hoolet, and the Deil go most of the story without their given names being mentioned. (Indeed, we ''never'' find out the Deil's.)
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* InterruptedSuicide: Nance saves [[spoiler:the Hoolet]] from her attempt to drown herself.
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* GoodStepmother: Clemmy is a party to the intrigues of the Chrystie sisters, and helps them evade discovery by their tyrannical father.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: When Peter Chrystie tries to deny the half-drowned [[spoiler:Hoolet]] entry to his home, his daughter Nance's righteous fury is immensely satisfying.
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* MistakenForCheating: Thanks to [[spoiler: the Hoolet]] wearing Nance's old clothes, it's the talk of the village that Nance is seeing Nathan behind Alec's back. Alec, however, [[MyGirlIsNotASlut doesn't believe a word of it.]]
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* DefiledForever: This would have been [[spoiler:the Hoolet's]] fate if [[spoiler:Alec, Nance, and the Hempie]] hadn't chanced to overhear her secret marriage vows with [[spoiler:Nathan Murdoch]].
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* UptownGirl: DownplayedTrope. The [=McQuhirrs=] and the Chrysties are both tenant farmers, but Peter Chrystie is wealthier and has aspirations to buy out his landlord and marry his daughters to lairds, which puts Nance supposedly beyond Alec's reach.
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* UptownGirl: DownplayedTrope. The [=McQuhirrs=] and the Chrysties are both tenant farmers, but Peter Chrystie is wealthier and has aspirations to buy out his landlord and marry his daughters to lairds, which puts Nance supposedly beyond Alec's reach.reach.
* WorldOfSnark: It seems almost everyone in rural Galloway has a razor sharp deadpan wit and isn't afraid to use it.
* WorldOfSnark: It seems almost everyone in rural Galloway has a razor sharp deadpan wit and isn't afraid to use it.
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* RoguishRomani: Romani herdsman Rab Anderson has a sideline in poaching.
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''Lads' Love'' is an 1897 RomanceNovel by Creator/SamuelRutherfordCrockett. In 1840s Galloway, hard-up young medical student Alec [=McQuhirr=] falls for farmer's daughter Nance Chrystie, but her father has other ideas.
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''Lads' Love'' is an 1897 RomanceNovel by Creator/SamuelRutherfordCrockett. Creator/SamuelRutherfordCrockett, an example of the "kailyard" style of Scottish rural romance popular at the time.
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In 1840s Galloway, hard-up young medical student Alec [=McQuhirr=] falls for farmer's daughter Nance Chrystie, but her father has other ideas.
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* TravellingSalesman: Nathan Murdoch is a very successful one, who doesn't really bother to hide the fact that he's a ConMan.
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* TheCasanova: Nathan Murdoch is a particularly caddish example.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: For all his friendly veneer, Nathan Murdoch is pretty easy to see through.
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* ConMan: Nathan Murdoch the packman sells useless trinkets on account for inflated prices and uses blackmail to keep collecting payments from housewives who've bought them without their husbands' knowledge. But because he operates in England, most of his neighbours back home in Galloway have little sympathy for his victims, regarding it as payback for the treatment Scotland has endured over the centuries.
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* TravellingSalesman: Nathan Murdoch is a very successful one, who doesn't really bother to hide the fact that he's a ConMan.
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* FeudingFamilies: It's a mild example, with no murder or ancient grudges, but the fathers of the lovebirds do NOT get on, and actually get in a fistfight at one point.
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* RoguishRomani: Romani herdsman Rab Anderson has sideline in poaching.
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* OverProtectiveDad: If you come wooing the Chrystie girls without Peter's approval, be prepared to be shot at.
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''Lads' Love'' is an 1897 RomanceNovel by Creator/SamuelRutherfordCrockett. In 1840s Galloway, hard-up young medical student Alec McQuhirr [=McQuhirr=] falls for farmer's daughter Nance Chrystie, but her father has other ideas.
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* UptownGirl: DownplayedTrope. The McQuhirrs and the Chrysties are both tenant farmers, but Peter Chrystie is wealthier and has aspirations to buy out his landlord and marry his daughters to lairds, which puts Nance supposedly beyond Alec's reach.
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* UptownGirl: DownplayedTrope. The McQuhirrs [=McQuhirrs=] and the Chrysties are both tenant farmers, but Peter Chrystie is wealthier and has aspirations to buy out his landlord and marry his daughters to lairds, which puts Nance supposedly beyond Alec's reach.
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''Lads' Love'' is an 1897 RomanceNovel by Creator/SamuelRutherfordCrockett. In 1840s Galloway, hard-up young medical student Alec McQuhirr falls for farmer's daughter Nance Chrystie, but her father has other ideas.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: The elderly lairds to the spirited Chrystie girls.
* CasanovaWannabe: Alec, initially, craves the reputation of a ladies' man if not to actually be one. It comes back to bite him.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Alec's narration is drily snarky pretty much whenever he isn't indulging in SceneryPorn.
* InfallibleNarrator: It takes three chapters for Alec to enter the story but he describes the early scenes as if he'd witnessed them. After that his perspective becomes more limited.
* NostalgicNarrator: The elderly Alec in 1897, looking back fondly on his youth fifty years earlier.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Hempie, the Hoolet, and the Deil go most of the story without their given names being mentioned.
* PunBasedTitle: The flowering herb lads' love is a motif in a novel that's also about the actual love affairs of young people.
* SceneryPorn: Crockett's love of the Galloway countryside is on full and lyrical display.
* TheTease: All three Chrystie sisters are noted as being shameless flirts.
* UptownGirl: DownplayedTrope. The McQuhirrs and the Chrysties are both tenant farmers, but Peter Chrystie is wealthier and has aspirations to buy out his landlord and marry his daughters to lairds, which puts Nance supposedly beyond Alec's reach.
!!Tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: The elderly lairds to the spirited Chrystie girls.
* CasanovaWannabe: Alec, initially, craves the reputation of a ladies' man if not to actually be one. It comes back to bite him.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Alec's narration is drily snarky pretty much whenever he isn't indulging in SceneryPorn.
* InfallibleNarrator: It takes three chapters for Alec to enter the story but he describes the early scenes as if he'd witnessed them. After that his perspective becomes more limited.
* NostalgicNarrator: The elderly Alec in 1897, looking back fondly on his youth fifty years earlier.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Hempie, the Hoolet, and the Deil go most of the story without their given names being mentioned.
* PunBasedTitle: The flowering herb lads' love is a motif in a novel that's also about the actual love affairs of young people.
* SceneryPorn: Crockett's love of the Galloway countryside is on full and lyrical display.
* TheTease: All three Chrystie sisters are noted as being shameless flirts.
* UptownGirl: DownplayedTrope. The McQuhirrs and the Chrysties are both tenant farmers, but Peter Chrystie is wealthier and has aspirations to buy out his landlord and marry his daughters to lairds, which puts Nance supposedly beyond Alec's reach.
