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The horses were solid; they were visible facts, and would make a mighty stir in Domremy. Presently something was said about the Coronation, and old D'Arc said it was going to be a grand thing to be able to say, when they got home, that they were present in the very town itself when it happened. Joan looked troubled, and said: "Ah, that reminds me. You were here and you didn't send me word.
But in the February of 1429 four days before the Maid of Domremy set forth from her voice-haunted Bois Chenu to bring about a certain coronation in Rheims Church and in Rouen Square a flamy martyrdom four days before the coming of the good Lorrainer, Fulke d'Arnaye was slain at Rouvray-en-Beausse in that encounter between the French and the English which history has commemorated as the Battle of the Herrings.
A virgin, an Amazon, had been raised up as a deliverer for France, and would soon be on them, armed with mysterious powers. A young peasant girl, one Jeanne d'Arc, had been brought up in the village of Domremy, hard by the Lorraine border.
A virgin, an Amazon, had been raised up as a deliverer for France, and would soon be on them, armed with mysterious powers. A young peasant girl, one Jeanne d'Arc, had been brought up in the village of Domremy, hard by the Lorraine border.
Not in Domremy itself, however, were these things considered with the same awe-stricken and admiring faith. Nothing had softened the mood of Jacques d'Arc.
We shall look out on our own fields, our harvests; for I think this city will keep us no longer than may he needful. We will go away into Picardy, and I will show you where our Joan was a prisoner; and we will go back to Domrémy, and walk in the places she loved, and pray God to bless us by that fountain, and in the grave-yard where your father and mother sleep.
I saw a flush rise to Bertrand's cheek, a flush as of pride and joy. And indeed, I myself rejoiced to hear the end of the tale; for it did seem as though this maiden had been persecuted with rancour and injustice, and that is a thing which no man can quietly endure to hear or see. "And how have they of Domremy behaved themselves to her since?" I asked; and Bertrand listened eagerly for the answer.
"My life?" "Or such a price as he pays who has been branded to-day?" "It was not the truth to your mother, or to mine. It was not the truth to any one we ever knew, till we came here to Meaux." "It is true to my heart, Elsie. It is true to my conscience. I know that I can live for it. And it may be" "Hush! do not! Oh, I wish that I could get you back to Domrémy! What is going to come of this?
Indeed, I know it was, because it made Joan laugh; and the more sorrowful it got the more it made her laugh; and the Paladin said that he could have laughed himself if she had not been there, and Noel Rainguesson said the same. It was about old Laxart going to a funeral there at Domremy two or three weeks back.
So well she understood herself! Truth was truth, and, if received, to be abided by. She could not hold it loosely. She could not trifle with it. She was born in Domrémy. She had played under the Fairy Oak. She knew the woods where Joan wandered when she sought her saintly solitude.
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