Bring Larks And Heroes (2012)
“With it, they had their weekly quarter pound of cheese, and drank from their canteens a watered-down Tenerife wine, very laxative, one of Mr Blythe’s wise buys. It was perhaps one o’clock, and the shade was very deep.
In sight stood Surgeon Daker’s long hospital, clapboard windows propped open, drinking the cool off the river. To Halloran, drowsing in the shade, some minute shift in the air would occasionally bring the thick, excremental smell of the place. The smell and the flies that rode it gave the three of them no rest.
‘Let’s go and collect our sick man,’ he suggested at last.
They approached the doorway with their heads back. ‘Hew!’ they said constantly in a note of discovery. ‘Hew!’ The door was open. Bronze flies sizzled in the daylight on the steps, wavered like the black spots in migraine. Perhaps they too were partially afflicted with disbelief. Faced with one of those things which have to be done quickly, Halloran ducked his head under the lintel and sniffed t...he dimness.MoreLess
In sight stood Surgeon Daker’s long hospital, clapboard windows propped open, drinking the cool off the river. To Halloran, drowsing in the shade, some minute shift in the air would occasionally bring the thick, excremental smell of the place. The smell and the flies that rode it gave the three of them no rest.
‘Let’s go and collect our sick man,’ he suggested at last.
They approached the doorway with their heads back. ‘Hew!’ they said constantly in a note of discovery. ‘Hew!’ The door was open. Bronze flies sizzled in the daylight on the steps, wavered like the black spots in migraine. Perhaps they too were partially afflicted with disbelief. Faced with one of those things which have to be done quickly, Halloran ducked his head under the lintel and sniffed t...he dimness.MoreLess
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