" He had, behind him, defeat. Look at it as he might, he had been a failure at Dawson's—he had not done the things that he had been put there to do—and yet through the disaster he knew that in so far as he had refused to bend to the storm so far there had been victory; of that at any rate he was sure. "

― Hugh Walpole , Fortitude: Being a True and Faithful Account of the Education of an Adventurer