Brother Copas

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

E-text prepared by Lionel Sear

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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"