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Never had the power of the Neviles seemed so secure; never did the throne of Edward appear so stable. It was at this time that the king prevailed upon the earl and his countess to permit the Lady Anne to accompany the Duchess of Clarence in a visit to the palace of the Tower.
"He is a most gracious master and a most winning gentleman." "He is both," said Montagu, with a touch of emotion that surprised Marmaduke; "and no man can come near without loving him. We Neviles must hold fast to each other. Not a stick should be lost if the fagot is to remain unbroken. What say you?" and the earl's keen eye turned sharply on the young man.
There was Sir John Coniers, who had married one of the Neviles, the daughter of Fauconberg, Lord High Admiral, but who had profited little by this remote connection with Warwick; for, with all his merit, he was a greedy, grasping man, and he had angered the hot earl in pressing his claims too imperiously. This renowned knight was a tall, gaunt man, whose iron frame sixty winters had not bowed.
For some days after the unsuspected visit which he had so criminally stolen to his guest's chamber, something of knightly honour, of religious scruple, of common reason, awakened in him the more by the dangers which had sprung up and which the Neviles were now actively employed in defeating, struggled against his guilty desire, and roused his conscience to a less feeble resistance than it usually displayed when opposed to passion; but the society of Anne, into which he was necessarily thrown so many hours in the day, and those hours chiefly after the indulgences of the banquet, was more powerful than all the dictates of a virtue so seldom exercised as to have none of the strength of habit.
I do not find the Ragged Staff ever attributed to the Neviles before the match with Beauchamp.
Even in his love, Alwyn had the Saxon's considerations of business; he hesitated "May I not endanger thereby the king's favour and loss of custom?" said the trader. "Tush, man! little thou knowest King Edward; he cares naught for the ceremonies: moreover, the Neviles are now all-puissant in favour.
Methinks he spared me rather, because, without me, an enterprise which has shaken the Woodvilles from their roots around the throne, and given back England to the Neviles, had been nipped in the bud! Your brother is a deep thinker!" "I grieve to hear thee speak thus of the Lord Montagu.
Already this morning I sought your chamber, but you were abroad, to say that I have received intelligence of a fresh rising of the Lancastrians in Lincolnshire, under Sir Robert Welles, and the warlike knight of Scrivelsby, Sir Thomas Dymoke. This is not yet an hour to anger the pride of the Neviles!" "O Hastings!
"Nay, my lord," she said, after a short pause, "we value the peace of our roiaulme too much for so high an ambition. Were we to make a brother even the prince of the closheys, we should disappoint the hopes of a Nevile." The earl disdained pursuing the war of words, and answering coldly, "The Neviles are more famous for making ingrates than asking favours.
The Lord of Harrington and Bonville is so noted a dolt, that even the Neviles cannot help him to rise, the meanest office is above his mind's level; and, dragged down by the heavy clay to which her wings are yoked, Katherine, Lady of Harrington and Bonville oh, give her her due titles! is but a pageant figure in the court.
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