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The Able McLaughlins

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Able McLaughlins is a 1923 novel by Margaret Wilson.It's set in a Scottish farming town on the Iowa prairie, in the time right after the end of the American Civil War. Wully McLaughlin, the eldest son of his clan, comes home after escaping from a Confederate prison camp. He meets neighbor girl Chirstie McNair and is bowled over to find that she has grown into a beautiful young woman while he's been away. They kiss passionately out in the tall grass, and when Wully leaves to rejoin his unit he believes that they are engaged.A few months later the war is over and Wully comes home for good. He is surprised to find Chirstie now behaving towards him with extreme coldness. Eventually Wully stumbles across a terrible secret: Chirstie is pregnant, after being raped by her cousin, town scumbag Peter Keith.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Received a sequel, The Law and the McLaughlins, in 1936.
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Book-Ends: The story opens with a man named Knight from the city giving Wully a ride back home in his carriage. Mr. Knight isn't seen again until the next-to-last chapter, when Wully meets him in the town and they reminisce about old times.
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Child by Rape: Chirstie is raped and impregnated by Peter Keith. She loves and treasures her son John—until the end when she encounters Peter again, and starts acting cold towards her toddler.
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