Fortitude
by Hugh Walpole
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The snow and quiet of the world "out-along" made the lights and warmth of the room the more comforting and exciting, and Sam Figgis had hung holly about the walls and dangled a huge bunch of mistletoe from the middle beam and poor Jane Clewer was always walking under it accidentally and waiting a little, but nobody kissed her. These things Peter noticed; he also noticed that Dicky the Idiot was allowed to be present as a very great favour because it was Christmas Eve and snowing so hard, that the room was more crowded than he had ever seen it, and that Mother Figgis, with her round face and he...
Chapters (176)
- FORTITUDE
- To Charles Maude The best of friends and the most honest of critics
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- BOOK I — SCAW HOUSE
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION TO COURAGE
- I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER II
- HOW THE WESTCOTT FAMILY SAT UP FOR PETER I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER III
- I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER IV
- IN WHICH “DAWSON'S,” AS THE GATE OF LIFE, IS PROVED A DISAPPOINTMENT I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER V
- DAWSON'S, THE GATE INTO HELL I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER VI
- A LOOKING-GLASS, A SILVER MATCH-BOX, A GLASS OF WHISKY, AND—VOX POPULI I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER VII
- PRIDE OF LIFE I
- II
- CHAPTER VIII
- PETER AND HIS MOTHER I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER IX
- THE THREE WESTCOTTS I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER X
- SUNLIGHT, LIMELIGHT, DAYLIGHT I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER XI
- ALL KINDS OF FOG IN THE CHARING CROSS ROAD I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER XII
- BROCKETTS: ITS CHARACTER, AND ESPECIALLY MRS. BROCKETT I
- BOOK II — THE BOOKSHOP
- CHAPTER I
- “REUBEN HALLARD” I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER II
- THE MAN ON THE LION I
- II
- CHAPTER III
- ROYAL PERSONAGES ARE COMING I
- II
- II
- CHAPTER IV
- A LITTLE DUST I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER V
- A NARROW STREET I
- II
- CHAPTER VI
- THE WORLD AND BUCKET LANE I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER VII
- DEVIL'S MARCH I
- II
- CHAPTER VIII
- STEPHEN'S CHAPTER I
- II
- III
- BOOK III — THE ROUNDABOUT
- CHAPTER I
- NO. 72, CHEYNE WALK I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER II
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER III
- THE ENCOUNTER I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER IV
- THE ROUNDABOUT I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER V
- THE IN-BETWEENS I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER VI
- BIRTH OF THE HEIR I
- II
- CHAPTER VII
- DECLARATION OF HAPPINESS I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER VIII
- BLINDS DOWN I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER IX
- WILD MEN I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER X
- ROCKING THE ROUNDABOUT I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER XI
- WHY? I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER XII
- A WOMAN CALLED ROSE BENNETT I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER XIII
- “MORTIMER STANT” I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER XIV
- PETER BUYS A PRESENT I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER XV
- MR. WESTCOTT SENIOR CALLS CHECKMATE I
- II
- III
- BOOK IV — SCAW HOUSE
- CHAPTER I
- THE SEA I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER II
- SCAW HOUSE I
- II
- CHAPTER III
- NORAH MONOGUE I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- CHAPTER IV
- THE GREY HILL I
- II
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