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He and his staff, of whom I only remember two-Colonels Scates and Braham, assistant adjutant-general and aide-de-camp seemed to think they had a big thing, and, so far as I could judge, they had just that. All hands thought the country expected them to cut their way to the Gulf; and to us, who had just come out of the swamp, the cutting didn't seem such an easy job as to the new-comers.
He felt that a theological discussion with Grandma Scates would end in his discomfiture and he wisely refrained. Quincy reached Mandy Maxwell's just in time for dinner, and, at his request, it was served in Uncle Ike's room. "This is more cheerful," said he to Quincy. "I once thought that being alone was the height of enjoyment and I did enjoy myself very selfishly for a good many years.
But you must go, Maude, and Alice and I will go with you, by the first train to-morrow morning." Quincy had Andrew get the carryall ready and he and Alice went round to say good-bye. He told Arthur Scates he would come or send for him soon, and that his grandmother could go and help Mrs. Pettingill.
If I could get some one to help her with the work, she'd be glad and willing to look after Uncle Ike." "We must find some way out of it," said Quincy, as they parted. His next visit was to the home of Arthur Scates. He found the young man in bed and in a very weak condition. "He's had two o' them bleedin' spells," said his grandmother, "an' las' night I thought sure he was a goner.
Ministers' sons are seldom appalled by worldly ways and, quite often, adopt them. "This is Arthur Scates," said Mr. Strout, as he presented a young man with sunken cheeks, hollow eyes, and an emaciated body. "He ain't enjoyin' the best of health." "Ah, I remember," said Quincy. "You are the young man who was to sing at the concert when I first came here.
"You don't say," again interrupted Mrs. Scates. "Well, I've nussed a good many " "You misunderstand me," said Quincy quickly. "Her Uncle Ike is coming to live with her, and she needs assistance in her work. You must go and see her at once."
Only when one does a good deed he must not expect to be repaid in exactly his own coin." "Did Mr. Scates offer to repay you?" "He did, and I told him to give it to some poor fellow who needed it." "Quincy, I don't know which to admire most. Your good heartedness, or your ability to make one sum of money perform many good actions."
Now look at that Italian name again." "I am doing so, and it looks just as foreign as ever." "Agreed, but Catessa contains just the same letters as A. Scates, only they are arranged differently." After the second act, Quincy visited Mr. Scates in his dressing room. The tenor insisted on Quincy and his party taking supper with him at his hotel after the opera.
His associates upon the Supreme Bench were Justices Treat, Caton, Ford, Wilson, Scates, and Lockwood. His opinions, twenty-one in number, will be found in Scammon's Reports. There was little in any of the causes submitted to test fully his capacity as lawyer or logician.
Moreover, the zoölogists Semper and Dohrn find in the embryonic development of the sharks, the scates, and other cartilaginous fishes, organs which would bring them rather into a nearer relationship with the ringed worms than with the crustacea.
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