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Title: On the wing of occasions : being the authorised version of certain curious episodes of the late Civil War, including the hitherto suppressed narrative of the kidnapping of President Lincoln
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Soldiers Conspiracy Kidnapping War stories
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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cis Flournoy, who had called at that hour onpretence of asking the Captains advice on somebusiness matter. He thought, poor young man,that he was very sly and shrewd, and that no oneexcept Miss Nora knew why he called so often ;whereas. Miss Nora was the only one in all thatneighbourhood who wasnt really certain. She hadher suspicions, and they were very pleasant ones ;but she had her doubts, too — and she was veryreserved and circumspect; and she never, underany circumstances, betrayed her real feelingsexcept in a thousand different ways which wereplain to everybody except to young Flournoy. Itis the way of lovers the world over, so the story-tellers say. But when Nora startled Francis Flournoy andherself by accidentally running into his arms, withher father looking on, and not attempting to con-ceal his triumphant amusement, she didnt knowwhether to laugh or cry. As a matter of fact, shedid both at one and the same time, and blushedand bit her lip, and pretended to be very much no
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NOR.\, WHOSE INTEREST AND CURIOSITY IMPELLED HER TO LISTENAT THE LIBRARY DOOR. THE TROUBLES OF MARTIN COY amused at everything, and very angry with every-body. But after a while, as they were talking onthe veranda, she became very much subdued.Wonderful for Nora, she fell into a fit of melan-choly ; and this young Flournoy had sense enoughto take advantage of. He was used to youngladies who were romantic and troubled with agentle melancholy; but Nora, with her various andversatile emotions, chief among which was a keenand restless humour, had been very much of a puz-zle to the young man. When, therefore, she remarked with a little sigh,that she supposed he came to see her father, heremarked that he was in no hurry, and that if —well, in short, he then and there took opportunityby the foretop and said what he had been tryingto say for many months. And as for Nora, she saidthat she never could enter into any engagement soserious until her father had approved of it, and soforth, and so

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