The Lady and the Lamp by Jane Smith

Author:Jane Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

The stink hit like a blow to the face. It was so much worse even than olden-day London!

Carly had never smelt anything so vile in all her life. The stink took the breath right out of her lungs. She couldn’t help it; her stomach clenched up and emptied itself all over the ground. It didn’t matter that her vomit was pooling all over the hospital floor. There were much worse things already there.

The hospital was a giant square, with all four sides wrapped around a big courtyard. Carly stood in that courtyard now with her friends, Florence Nightingale, and the other nurses. Rain was bucketing down now - pouring into the yard, turning all the muck in it into a disgusting soup of mud, vomit, rubbish, rats and – judging by the smell of it – probably toilet waste too.

Florence gazed about in horror. ‘It’s even worse than I expected.’

‘What on earth—?’ A man’s voice boomed at them. ‘Who are YOU?’

They turned. A straight-backed man in a long coat, with long sideburns and angry eyes, was glaring at Florence.

‘I, sir, am Miss Nightingale,’ Florence replied in an icy voice. ‘And who are you?’

‘I am Dr Menzies, Chief Medical Officer of this hospital. What on EARTH are you doing here?’

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