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Excerpt from Lincoln's Personality: An English Study
And now I come to the most import ant fact in the inner lives of most men, and of Lincoln as much almost as any man, namely, his attitude to women. He was always intensely sensible to their attractions intense sensibility to everything around him was, indeed, part of that outfit of Lincoln which made him so potent an influence on others. But again this sensitiveness was concealed by the torturing shyness with which youth, and youth most sen sitive to women, veils itself. It was no wonder that poor Lincoln, when a youth, should be shy with women, for everything about him for some years revealed the black and sordid poverty in which he then had his being. 'he always disliked to wait on the ladies, ' says our precious Ellis, already quoted, and now describing Lincoln in his short career as a shopkeeper, 'preferring to Wait, he said, on the men and the boys.' A partial explanation is immediately given. 'he wore flax and tow linen pantaloons I thought above five inches too short in the legs and fre quently had but one suspender, no vest or coat. He wore a calico shirt such as he had in the Black Hawk War, coarse brogans (tan color), blue yarn socks, and straw hat, old style and without a band.' No wonder Lincoln disliked to wait on the ladies.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
