The Dream Thief by Catherine Webb

Author:Catherine Webb [Webb, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2010-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Which might have been why, that same overcast cool morning in London, when Lyle was seeking help for Sissy Smith from a hospital, Mrs Hobbs walked into the offices of Messrs Scroop and Blunt, bankers to the not especially privileged but well-enough-to-do to need a bank, with a stolen ledger under her arm and a guileless look upon her face, and said, ‘I would like to talk to a man about a fund for the well-being of the children.’

Horatio Lyle was lucky to have an acquaintance like Mrs Hobbs.

On the edge of Marylebone, the city-builders of London had been busy: new terraced buildings and freshly cobbled roads; old canals covered with new bridges; and on the edge of it all, a new high-domed station, sending new, steam-venting trains to new, smoky cities, sat like a great red beetle trying to take wing. Nearby, to complete the picture, was a brand shining new and utterly unpleasant little hospital. The precepts of its foundation were as simple as its flat grey floors and high dark walls, as clean as its regular tall windows and orderly as its white-turned beds: this was a hospital for disadvantaged children, who, being disadvantaged, would naturally be grateful for any kind of hospital at all and didn’t care too much about the presentation.

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