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* VenturousSmuggler: Dirk Hatteraick and his crew are the less dashing, more ruthless kind.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The various [[FictionalProvince invented towns and villages]] in the novel have been mapped onto real Galloway locations - so Ellangowan is Barholm, Portanferry is Creetown, Kippletringan is Gatehouse of Fleet, Hazlewood is Ardwall (the curious "-le-" spelling of the "hazel" element does suggest it's also influenced by Hazlefield near Auchencairn, but that's inland while Hazlewood is on the coast).
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* GunStruggle: Brown and Hazlewood have a fight while Brown is holding a gun. Hazlewood gets accidentally shot, which leads to Hazlewood's father and Guy assuming Brown deliberately tried to kill him.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: The Dominie exclaims "Prodigious!" every time something surprising happens.
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* FunetikAksent: Joe Hodges has a nigh-incomprehensible accent. Especially odd, because this is an ''in-universe'' phonetic accent; Brown transcribes Hodges's words in a letter to his friend.
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* PutOnABus: Guy disappears from the story in chapter five and doesn't reappear until [[TheBusCameBack chapter eleven]], when several years have passed in-universe.
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* PutOnABus: Guy disappears from the story in chapter five and doesn't reappear until [[TheBusCameBack chapter eleven]], when several years have passed in-universe. Scott lampshades this later, when he [[LemonyNarrator snarks]] that Guy had better appear again or the readers will think he's disappeared for another quarter of a century.
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Dominie Sampson's first name is never mentioned. He's known only as "Dominie" or "the Dominie", a Scottish word meaning "schoolmaster" or "clergyman".
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Harry is kidnapped on his fifth birthday. Seventeen years later Guy Mannering's daughter falls in love with Vanbeest Brown, a soldier of mysterious origins, who Guy believes he killed in a duel...
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Harry is kidnapped on his fifth birthday. Seventeen years later Guy Mannering's daughter falls in love with Vanbeest Brown, a soldier of mysterious origins, who Guy believes he challenged to a duel and [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated who was reported killed in a duel...
battle...]]
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* AsYouKnow: Guy describes his past in a letter to an old friend, who already knows most of what Guy tells him.
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* MistakenForCheating: Sophia Mannering and Vanbeest Brown had a platonic friendship. But Guy, egged on by another soldier's MaliciousSlander of Sophia, suspected they were having an affair and challenged Brown to a duel.
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* DrunkWithPower: The formerly easy-going Godfrey Bertram turns into a tyrant when he becomes a judge.
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* DeathByChildbirth: Henry's mother dies giving birth to his sister.
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* {{Epigraph}}: Every chapter starts with a quotation, usually from one of Shakespeare's plays (including ''Theatre/HenryIV'', ''Theatre/KingLear'', and ''Theatre/KingJohn'').
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[[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guy_mannering.jpg]]
''Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer'' is an 1815 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Sir Creator/WalterScott. It's the second book of the ''Waverley'' novels.
In the late eighteenth century Guy Mannering gets lost while travelling in Scotland. He takes shelter at a nearby house owned by the Laird of Ellangowan. The laird's son Harry has just been born, so Guy, an astrologer, offers to tell the baby's fortune. He's alarmed by what he sees. Instead of telling the parents there and then, he writes down his predictions and tells them to read them only when Harry turns five.
Harry is kidnapped on his fifth birthday. Seventeen years later Guy Mannering's daughter falls in love with Vanbeest Brown, a soldier of mysterious origins, who Guy believes he killed in a duel...
The novel can be read [[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5999/pg5999-images.html on Gutenberg]].
!!Contains examples of:
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Things ''might'' have gone better for the Bertrams if only Guy had told them his predictions.
* IAmWho: [[spoiler: Vanbeest Brown is really Harry Bertram. He's as shocked as everyone else when this is revealed.]]
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''Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer'' is an 1815 [[HistoricalFiction historical novel]] by Sir Creator/WalterScott. It's the second book of the ''Waverley'' novels.
In the late eighteenth century Guy Mannering gets lost while travelling in Scotland. He takes shelter at a nearby house owned by the Laird of Ellangowan. The laird's son Harry has just been born, so Guy, an astrologer, offers to tell the baby's fortune. He's alarmed by what he sees. Instead of telling the parents there and then, he writes down his predictions and tells them to read them only when Harry turns five.
Harry is kidnapped on his fifth birthday. Seventeen years later Guy Mannering's daughter falls in love with Vanbeest Brown, a soldier of mysterious origins, who Guy believes he killed in a duel...
The novel can be read [[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5999/pg5999-images.html on Gutenberg]].
!!Contains examples of:
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Things ''might'' have gone better for the Bertrams if only Guy had told them his predictions.
* IAmWho: [[spoiler: Vanbeest Brown is really Harry Bertram. He's as shocked as everyone else when this is revealed.]]
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