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Updated: September 1, 2025
The hands were all ordered below as they neared the forts, Maitre Nicolay himself taking the helm. All was dark and silent as they approached, and as La Belle Jeanne swept past them like a shadow, and all was still, a sigh of relief burst from the marquis and Rupert.
He glanced toward the waiting crowd and whispered again: "Any news to-day from the front before I go on?" Nicolay drew a telegram from his file: "Only this dispatch, sir, announcing the capture of fifty mules and two brigadier generals by Stuart's cavalry " "Fifty mules?" "And two brigadier generals." "Fifty mules and they're worth two hundred dollars a piece.
I dined with the widow of General Liprandi at Odessa. I saw the Arabian traveller Palgrave at Trebizond, and Baron Nicolay, the Civil Governor of the Caucasus, at Tiflis.
In any case, at the speed we shall be going through the water in another hour or two, no rowboat could stop us." "I think, Captain Nicolay, it would be as well for you to keep only as many men as you absolutely want on deck, so that you can say we only allowed two or three up, and kept watch over you with loaded pistols." "It would be better, perhaps," Maitre Nicolay said.
Also, not long afterwards, the maps of Nicolay and Zaltieri adopted the reverse treatment of transferring Brazil to Newfoundland waters, as if recognizing past error and restoring its proper place. It seems altogether likely that "Brazil" was applied to the entire outjutting region of America surrounding the Gulf of St. Lawrence that part of this continent which is by far the nearest Ireland.
The poet's winged words fly far, and find a resting-place in many minds. This idea has become widespread, and has recently found fuller expression in Mr. Clarence King's prefatory note to the great life of Lincoln by Hay and Nicolay. Mr. King says: "Abraham Lincoln was the first American to reach the lonely height of immortal fame.
Other biographers deal lightly with these episodes. Nicolay and Hay scantly refer to them, and, in their admiration for Mr. Lincoln, even permit themselves to speak of that most abominable letter to Mrs. Browning as "grotesquely comic." Herndon and Lamon are painful, and in part even humiliating; and it would be most satisfactory to give these things the go-by.
The books which he saw were few, but a little later he laid hands upon them all and read and re-read them till he must have absorbed all their strong juice into his own nature. Nicolay and Hay give the list: The Bible; "Aesop's Fables;" "Robinson Crusoe;" "The Pilgrim's Progress;" a history of the United States; Weems's "Washington."
Little has been made public concerning them, but enough to convey the impression of a wise and tender father, trusted by his children and delighting in them. John Nicolay, his loyal and capable secretary, and the delightful John Hay must be reckoned on the cheerful side for there was one of Lincoln's daily life.
Nicolay and Hay, who seem to me if I may say it, to have written with the single-minded purpose of throwing everybody's blunders into the scale against McClellan, and I have adopted the view of Mr. John C. Ropes in his volume on The Army under Pope, in the Campaigns of the Civil War Series.
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