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The powers at Washington thought it quite the same thing to offer me Rome; but I found that the income of the Roman consulate would not give me a living, and I was forced to decline it. Then the President's private secretaries, Mr. John Nicolay and Mr.
Nicolay, who was at Baltimore in attendance at the convention, was well acquainted with this attitude; but at last, over-borne by the solicitations of the chairman of the Illinois delegation, who had been perplexed at the advocacy of Joseph Holt by Leonard Swett, one of the President's most intimate friends, Mr. Nicolay wrote to Mr.
In his earliest formative years there were six books which he read and re-read. Nicolay and Hay name the Bible first in the list, with Pilgrim's Progress as the fourth. Mr. Morse calls it a small library, but nourishing, and says that Lincoln absorbed into his own nature all the strong juice of the books. Quotation, reference, illustration crowd each other. The phrases are familiar.
It owed its origin partly to the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, and partly to the exertions of the Rev. F. D. Maurice and the Rev. C. G. Nicolay. The first object was to assist governesses to obtain certificates of efficiency, but this is no longer the primary object.
Nicolay and Hay relate an anecdote of great significance.
The captain said he should be returning in a week or ten days, so I hope he has his cargo on board, and will be open to make a start at once." In a few minutes they were alongside the lugger. "Maitre Nicolay! Maitre Nicolay!" the marquis shouted. "Holloa!" and a head showed up the companion. On seeing who it was, the speaker emerged. "It is you, Maitre Perrot." "Have you your cargo on board?"
His enemies needed no alienation, but they made adroit use of this to stir up and increase discontent. So matters grew no better with Fremont, but much worse for three months. The words of Nicolay and Hay are none too strong: "He had frittered away his opportunity for usefulness and fame; such an opportunity, indeed, as rarely comes."
"That is the gentleman whom both I and my daughter like better than the king's choice." "That is all right," Maitre Nicolay said. "There is no hanging matter in that.
Born in Indiana in 1838, died in 1905; graduated from Brown University in 1858; admitted to the bar in Illinois; one of the private secretaries of President Lincoln; secretary of Legation in Paris, Madrid and Vienna; Assistant Secretary of State in 1879-81; president of the International Sanitary Commission in 1891; ambassador to England in 1897-98; Secretary of State in 1898; author of "Castilian Days," published in 1871, "Pike County Ballads" in 1871, "Abraham Lincoln: a History," in collaboration with John G. Nicolay in 1890.
He turned to Nicolay, his secretary: "Get my carriage, find her, and bring her to me. I want to see her." Betty's eyes were still red when she walked into his office. He sprang to his feet, and with long strides met her. He grasped her hand in both his and pressed it tenderly. "So it's you!" he whispered. Betty nodded. "My little Cabinet comforter "
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