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Fortitude: (Hugh Walpole Classics Collection)

Fortitude: (Hugh Walpole Classics Collection)

Walpole, Hugh

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1508921385
ISBN13: 9781508921387
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 17 2015
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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 her gnarled and knotted hands, was at her very merriest and in the best of tempers. All these things Peter had noticed before Frosted Moses (so called because of his long white beard and wonderful age) made his remark about Courage, but as soon as that remark was made Peter's thoughts were on to it as the hounds are on to a fox.

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