[Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookBrother Copas CHAPTER III 14/23
If I stand in with you in resisting Colt, you must release Bonaday here.
Henceforth he's out of the quarrel." "But I do not understand." Brother Warboise regarded Brother Copas from under his stiff grey eyebrows.
"Why should Bonaday back out ?" "That is his affair," answered Brother Copas smoothly, almost before Brother Bonaday was aware of being appealed to. "But--you don't mind my saying it--I've never considered you as a Protestant, quite; not, at least, as an earnest one." "That," said Brother Copas, "I may be glad to remember, later on. But come; I offer you a bargain.
Strike off Bonaday and enlist me. A volunteer is proverbially worth two pressed men; and as a Protestant I promise you to shine.
If you must have my reason, or reasons, say that I am playing for safety." Here Brother Copas laid down his rod on the grassy bank and felt for his snuff-box.
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