Excerpt from Some Old Love Stories For the next hour or two I shall walk by his side in spirit, for I shall try with the aid of another pen than his, but under the illumination I received from his conversation, to draw a portrait of his hero and his friend. Many people indeed will probably be startled to know that Abraham Lincoln had a love story at all. There are few modern contemporary characters of whose inner life so little is known among Englishmen. And yet there are few lives that have in them more of picturesqueness, pathos, suffering-that bring more. 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.