He calls himself the slave of principles and says he owns no other master.

Mr.
Sumner's my notion of a bishop." The other did not seem to be listening.

"Are you still set on re-enforcing Fort Sumter ?" he asked, his bent brows making a straight line above his eyes.
Lincoln nodded.

He was searching in the inside pocket of his frock-coat, from which he extracted a bundle of papers.

Seward saw what he was after, and his self-consciousness increased.
"You have read my letter ?" he asked.
"I have," said Lincoln, fixing a pair of cheap spectacles on his nose.
He had paid thirty-seven cents for them in Bloomington five years before.