Sawbones (2013)
“Ezra had asked the porter about her; he said she was a girl who cried apples and pears in the street who’d got caught under the wheels of a runaway timber wagon coming down Fish Street Hill.
From the hallway outside the operating theatre Ezra could hear the cry of a baby. The porter said it had been strapped to the young woman’s back when it happened, and was lucky not to have been injured.
Ezra had tied the tourniquet tightly around the girl’s thigh, and there was not so much bleeding. She had... been strapped down to the table, and – poor thing, Ezra thought – was still completely conscious, even though she stank to high heaven of gin. She was mumbling prayers under her breath, and when Ezra came close she grabbed his wrist.
“I have never seen so many gentlemen all in one place,” she whispered. “Perhaps there is one who’ll want to wed a one-legged maid?” Ezra looked at her properly. She was passing fair: dark hair, brown eyes – like Anna, he thought.
“Perhaps,”MoreLess
From the hallway outside the operating theatre Ezra could hear the cry of a baby. The porter said it had been strapped to the young woman’s back when it happened, and was lucky not to have been injured.
Ezra had tied the tourniquet tightly around the girl’s thigh, and there was not so much bleeding. She had... been strapped down to the table, and – poor thing, Ezra thought – was still completely conscious, even though she stank to high heaven of gin. She was mumbling prayers under her breath, and when Ezra came close she grabbed his wrist.
“I have never seen so many gentlemen all in one place,” she whispered. “Perhaps there is one who’ll want to wed a one-legged maid?” Ezra looked at her properly. She was passing fair: dark hair, brown eyes – like Anna, he thought.
“Perhaps,”MoreLess
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