. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . ward. May it please your Excellency, said Lord Lyons,I hold in my hand an autograph letter from my royalmistress, Qjieen Victoria, which I have been commandedto present to your Excellency. In it sh
. Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated . ward. May it please your Excellency, said Lord Lyons,I hold in my hand an autograph letter from my royalmistress, Qjieen Victoria, which I have been commandedto present to your Excellency. In it she informs yourExcellency that her son, his Royal Highness the Princeof Wales, is about to contract a matrimonial alliancewith her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Den-mark. After continuing in this strain for a few minutes, LordLyons tendered the letter to the President and awaited WHITE HOUSE INCIDENTS. 125 his reply. It was short, simple, and expressive, andconsisted simply of the words: Lord Lyons, go thou and do is doubtful if an English embassador was ever ad-dressed in this manner before, and it would be interest-ing to learn what success he met with in putting thereply in diplomatic language when he reported it to herMajesty. -?- Mr. Lincoln and the Bashful Boys. The President and a friend were standing upon thethreshold of the door under the portico of the White. House, awaiting the coachman, when a letter was putinto his hand. While he was reading this, people werepassing, as is customary, up and down the promenade,which leads through the grounds of the War Department,crossing, of course, the portico. Attention was attractedto an approaching party, apparently a countryman, plainly 126 Lincolns stories and speeches. dressed, with his wife and two Httle boys, who had evi-dently been straying about, looking at the places of pub-lic interest in the city. As they reached the portico thefather, who was in advance, caught sight of the tallfigure of Mr. Lin
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