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Sample ## Take a look inside E-text prepared by Lionel Sear BROTHER COPAS By ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH. 1911 This etext prepared from a reprint of a version published in 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" This 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. 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 LAUNDRY. XIV. BROTHER COPAS ON THE HOUSE OF LORDS. XV. CANARIES AND GREATCOATS. XVI. THE SECOND LETTER. XVII. PUPPETS. XVIII. THE PERVIGILUM. [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fbrother-copas) The sample continues in the full work. 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