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Updated: May 11, 2025
The wind was fresh and bracing, and nature appeared bright and cheerful, on that long-to-be-remembered morning. Early in the morn, just after sunrise, Bernard de Torci, Gilbert d'Aubyn, Eustace de Senville, and a large body of their retainers, arrived at the castle. They found the men of Aescendune prepared to receive them, and the leaders entered the council chamber of their host.
Shall I delay the banquet?" "Are all the others in?" "Sir Eustace de Senville has not yet come from the forest." "Let it be delayed half an hour." The old servant shook his head the roast meats were done to a turn, and he feared the reputation of the ten cooks, who had toiled the long afternoon before the fires, might suffer. The baron paced impatiently up and down his chamber.
Strange to say, the idea that the foe had been masquerading for the purpose of frightening them, never struck our Normans. "When they had gone, we approached the spot," continued the aged knight of Senville, "and found foot marks in the snow, which, from the previous fall, lay lightly on the ground, for the storm of tonight had hardly set in.
The old man, Eustace de Senville, was silent till all had spoken; then, like Nestor of old, wise, and qualified by age to act as counsellor, he let fall his weighty words, which fell from his lips like the flakes of thick falling snow without. "My lot hath been different," he said; "it fell to me to explore the quarter of the forest next to that assigned to the son of our host.
The garrison of the English in Beaugency, he says, did not know whether to hold out or to yield. Talbot reported all this to Bedford, at Paris, and large forces were sent to relieve Beaugency. Wavrin rode with his captain, Fastolf, to Senville, where Talbot joined them, and a council was held.
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