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For the next six weeks Alec Lindsay's life was one unvarying round of lectures, and preparation for lectures. For recreation he had football on the College Green, long walks on Saturday afternoons, and long debates with his friend Cameron. The debates, however, were not very frequent, for the Highlander was working twelve hours a day.
‘I mean to get a first-class in surgery,' he said to Alec one Saturday night, as the two sat over their pipes in Alec's sitting-room; ‘and then perhaps the Professor will ask me to be an assistant. If he does, my fortune is made, for I know my work.'