Produced by The Distributed Proofreading Team FORTITUDE By Hugh Walpole To Charles Maude The best of friends and the most honest of critics TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOK I: SCAW HOUSE I INTRODUCTION TO COURAGE II HOW THE WESTCOTT FAMILY SAT UP FOR PETER III OF THE DARK SHOP OF ZACHARY TAN, AND OF THE DECISIONS THAT THE PEOPLE IN SCAW HOUSE CAME TO CONCERNING PETER IV IN WHICH “DAWSON'S,” AS THE GATE OF LIFE, IS PROVED A DISAPPOINTMENT V DAWSON'S, THE GATE INTO HELL VI A LOOKING-GLASS, A SILVER MATCH-BOX, A GLASS OF WHISKY, AND VOX POPULI VII PRIDE OF LIFE VIII PETER AND HIS MOTHER IX THE THREE WESTCOTTS X SUNLIGHT, LIMELIGHT, DAYLIGHT XI ALL KINDS OF FOG IN THE CHARING CROSS ROAD XII BROCKETT'S: ITS CHARACTERS AND ESPECIALLY MRS. BROCKETT BOOK II: THE BOOKSHOP I “REUBEN HALLARD” II THE MAN ON THE LION III ROYAL PERSONAGES ARE COMING IV A LITTLE DUST V A NARROW STREET VI THE WORLD AND BUCKET LANE VII DEVIL'S MARCH VIII STEPHEN'S CHAPTER BOOK III: THE ROUNDABOUT I NO. 72, CHEYNE WALK II A CHAPTER ABOUT SUCCESS: HOW TO WIN IT, HOW TO KEEP IT--WITH A NOTE AT THE END FROM HENRY GALLEON III THE ENCOUNTER IV THE ROUNDABOUT V THE IN-BETWEENS VI BIRTH OF THE HEIR VII DECLARATION OF HAPPINESS VIII BLINDS DOWN IX WILD MEN X ROCKING THE ROUNDABOUT XI WHY? XII A WOMAN CALLED ROSE BENNETT XIII “MORTIMER STANT” XIV PETER BUYS A PRESENT XV MR. WESTCOTT SENIOR CALLS CHECKMATE BOOK IV: SCAW HOUSE I THE SEA II SCAW HOUSE III NORAH MONOGUE IV THE GREY HILL BOOK I -- SCAW HOUSE CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION TO COURAGE I “'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it” ... this from old Frosted Moses in the warm corner by the door. There might have been an answer, but Dicky Tasset, the Town Idiot, filled in the pause with the tale that he was telling Mother Figgis. “And I ran--a mile or more with the stars dotted all over the ground for yer pickin', as yer might say....”