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The hall of his hotel at Nanci was a beautiful place, with all the gorgeous grace of the fifteenth century, and here his guests assembled for supper soon after their arrival, all being placed as much as possible according to rank.
My poor sisters in this strange land! You, who are wiser than all, tell me what can have become of them? 'What can I say, Madame? Love love of the minstrel kind seems to run in the family. You all have supped full thereof at Nanci. If report said true, there was a secret lover in their suite. What so likely as that the May game should have become earnest? 'But, sir, we are accountable.
Then the Earl had declared that, since his son had set out on this fool's errand, he should be suitably furnished for the heir of Angus, and should play his part as became him in their sports at Nanci, whither his letter said he was bound, instead of figuring as a mere groom of Drummond of Glenuskie, and still worse, in the train of a low-born Englishman like De la Pole.
The wedding was by no means so splendid an affair as the tournament, as, indeed, it was merely a marriage by proxy, and Yolande and her Count of Vaudemont were too near of kin to be married before a dispensation could be procured. The King and Queen of France would leave Nanci to see the bride partly on her way.
The next year the Duke once more flung his reckless valor against the strength of the Swiss infantry, and barely escaped from an utter defeat at Morat. Made desperate by misfortune, he risked another battle near Nanci, in 1477, at the head of an inferior force, composed partly of treacherous mercenaries, and was vanquished and slain.
The King himself, it was reported, did nothing but ride backwards and forwards between Nanci and the convent where he had halted, arranging the details of the procession, and of the open-air feast at the rendezvous upon the way. 'I hope, said Lady Suffolk, 'that King Rene's confections will not be as full of rancid oil as those of the good sisters.
He had intended to make Nanci his capital; but his body was found near by in a swamp, stripped of its clothing, frozen, and covered with wounds. EXTENSION OF FRANCE. Louis XI could hardly stifle expressions of joy at the news of the death of his hated and formidable rival.
'They dinna hang the like of him for twisting a goose's neck; it was for the puir leal laddie; and ye may tak' that to him. 'Shall I, Elleen? asked David, with a twinkle in his eye of cousinly teasing. 'An' ye do not, I shall proclaim ye in the lists at Nanci as a corbie messenger and mansworn squire, unworthy of your spurs, threatened Jeanie, in all good humour however.
The lot of Margaret of Scotland was as piteous as that of any of the doomed house of Stewart. And there the Lady of Glenuskie and Annis de Terreforte watched her sinking day by day, and still there were no tidings of Jean and Eleanor from Nanci, no messenger from Sir Patrick to tell where the search was directed.
'Outside here at Nanci, it is all that my fancy ever shaped, and yet and yet there is a strange sense of fear beyond. 'Oh, talk not that gate, cried Jean, 'as thou wilt be having thy gruesome visions! 'No; it is not of that sort, returned Eleanor. 'I trow not! It may be rather the feeling of the vanity of all this world's show.
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