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The knight treated Joan's words with derision, and Joan herself with insults; and thus ended the first of their interviews. On the plea of attending her cousin Laxart's wife's confinement, Joan returned to Burey-le-Petit.
At Burey-le-Petit Joan remained between the end of January until her departure for Chinon, on the 23rd of February; and before taking final leave she asked and received her parents' pardon for her abrupt departure from them. While with the Laxarts, news reached Vaucouleurs that the English had commenced the siege of Orleans.
But a far more important witness than any of the preceding three-and-twenty was the uncle of the heroine, Durand Laxart, farm labourer at Burey-le-Petit, whom, it will be remembered, Joan first took into her confidence regarding her voices and her mission. Laxart was then in his sixtieth year.
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