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Title: Brother Copas

Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Release Date: April 3, 2007 [eBook #20979]

Language: English

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BROTHER COPAS

by

ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH.

1911

TO THE GENTLE READER.

In a former book of mine, _Sir John Constantine_, I expressed
(perhaps extravagantly) my faith in my fellows and in their capacity
to treat life as a noble sport. In _Brother Copas_ I try to express
something of that corellative scorn which must come sooner or later
to every man who puts his faith into practice.. I have that faith
still; but that

"He who would love his fellow men
Must not expect too much of them"

is good counsel if bad rhyme. I can only hope that both the faith
and the scorn are sound at the core.

For the rest, I wish to state that St. Hospital is a society which
never existed. I have borrowed for it certain features from the
Hospital of St. Cross, near Winchester. I have invented a few
external and all the internal ones. My "College of Noble Poverty"
harbours abuses from which, I dare to say, that nobler institution is
entirely free. St Hospital has no existence at all outside of my
imagining.

ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH.

The Haven, Fowey.
February 16th, 1911.

"And a little Child shall lead them."--ISAIAH xi. 6.

CONTENTS.

Chapter

I. THE MASTER OF ST. HOSPITAL.

II. THE COLLEGE OF NOBLE POVERTY.

III. BROTHER COPAS HOOKS A FISH.

IV. CORONA COMES.

V. BROTHER COPAS ON RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES.

VI. GAUDY DAY.

VII. LOW AND HIGH TABLES.

VIII. A PEACE-OFFERING.

IX. BY MERE RIVER.

X. THE ANONYMOUS LETTER.

XI. BROTHER COPAS ON THE ANGLO-SAXON.

XII. MR. ISIDORE TAKES CHARGE.

XIII. GARDEN AND LAUNDR