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Erson; while reports daily came in of the great muster the Armagnacs
were making, as though determined to offer battle. Salisbury was
determined not to abide the chances of the battle without first giving a
protector to his little daughter; and therefore, as quietly as if she
had been merely going to mass, the Lady Alice was wedded to her Sir
Richard Nevil, who treated the affair as the simplest matter of course,
and troubled himself with very slight demonstrations of affection. The
wedding took place at Senlis, whither the female part of the Court had
accompanied the King, upon the very day of the parting. No one was
present, except one of Sir Richard's brothers (the whole family numbered
twenty-two), his esquire; and on Alice's side, her father, Esclairmonde,
and a few other ladies. At the last moment, however, the King himself
came up, leaning on Warwick's arm, looking thin, ill, and flushed, but
resolved to do honour to his faithful Salisbury, at whose request he had
permitted the barony of Montagu to be at once transferred to Nevil, who
would thenceforth be called by that title. After the ceremony, King
Henry kissed the gentle bride, placed a costly ring upon her finger, and
gave his best and warmest wishes to the newly- married pair. Little
guessed any there present what the sound of Warwick and Salisbury would
be in forty years' time to the babe cradled at Windsor. As the King
passed Esclairmonde, he paused, and said, in an undertone, 'Dear lady,
deem not that I have forgotte
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