Colville of the Guards, Volume 2 (of 3)

JAMES GRANT
AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE OF WAR, THE CAMERONIANS, THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER, ETC., ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1885.
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CONTENTS

COLVILLE OF THE GUARDS.
Robert Wodrow, we have stated, had disappeared from his home.
Ellinor had apparently passed out of his life, and he felt as if he had nothing more to hope for in it; but the influence of her memory hung over him still.
Even the love he bore his poor old mother failed to restrain his wild impulse, his craving, to begone, he cared not where; thus her influence also failed in getting him to resume those medical studies which he once pursued with enthusiasm, but now relinquished with indifference or disgust; and, under the disappointment and mental worry produced by Ellinor's falsehood to himself, he failed to graduate at the expected time.