Crossword-Solution: COPAS 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But I heard Brother Copas say the other day that the teetotallers were in a hopeless case; being mostly religious men, and yet having to explain in the last instance why Our Lord, in Cana of Galilee, did not turn the water into ginger-pop." The Master frowned and stroked his gaiters.

Simeon's tongue just now and prompted him to quote Brother Copas detrimentally? The little man did not shape this accusation clearly against himself, for he had a rambling head; but he had also a sound heart, and it was uneasy.

What's the child's name, by the by? "Corona, it seems." "Seems?" "She was born just after her mother left me and went to America, having a little money of her own saved out of our troubles." Again Brother Copas, in the act of making a cast, glanced back over his shoulder, but Brother Bonaday's eyes were on the swallows.

Well, I am glad, anyway, that you told me whilst there was yet a chance of my being useful; being, as you may or may not have observed, inclined to jealousy in matters of friendship." This time Brother Copas kept his face averted, and made a fresh cast across stream with more than ordinary care.

While if I hide it from him, and he grants the favour, and then next day or the day after I declare for Warboise, it will look like treachery, eh?" "Damn!" said Brother Copas, still winding in his line meditatively.