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For herself she never asked anything. After the coronation at Rheims, when the King begged her to make him a request, the only thing she asked was, that the taxes might be taken off her native village. Her father, who came to see her at Rheims, had the satisfaction of carrying back this news to Domremy.
Andrew Lang thinks that this appearance at Toul was made after she had finally left Domremy, and when she was already accompanied by the escort which was to attend her to Chinon. Mr. Andrew Lang will not hear of this. Her brother Pierre is said by some to have been of the party. La Chronique de la Pucelle says two of her brothers. Mr.
Daughter of Domrémy, when the gratitude of thy king shall awaken, thou wilt be sleeping the sleep of the dead. Call her, King of France, but she will not hear thee! Cite her by thy apparitors to come and receive a robe of honor, but she will be found en contumace.
He told how the maiden loved the sound of the church bells, and how she would blame him when he neglected ringing them, and of her little gifts to him to make him more diligent in his office. After the bell-ringer came three priests all belonging to the neighbourhood of Domremy.
Startled by this suggestion, the judges seem to have held a hurried consultation among themselves to see whether these matters did really touch the trial; the result apparently decided them to return again to the question of the local superstitions of Domremy, the only point on which there seemed a chance of breaking down the extraordinarily just and steadfast intelligence of the girl who stood before them.
Coming to our own days we have quite a crowd of writers who have written with enthusiasm on the Maid of Domremy. It is sufficient to name the most prominent of these Landor, Sir James Mackintosh, John Sterling, Lord Mahon, De Quincey, and J.R. Green. No. To begin with her own countrywoman for the first who sang of Joan of Arc was appropriately enough a fellow-countrywoman Christine de Pisan.
Such youths are always forced into the silence.... I often think of the education of Hiawatha by old Nokomis, the endless and perfect analogies of the forest and stream and field, by which a child with vision can gain the story of life. Repeatedly we have discussed the maiden who sustained France her girlhood in the forests of Domremy.
No pride has she, but sat at meat, and spoke friendly with all these manants, and it was 'tu' and 'toy, and 'How is this one? and that one? till verily, I think, she had asked for every man, woman, child, and dog in Domremy. And that puts me in mind " "In mind of what?" "Of nought. Faith, I remember not what I was going to say, for I am well weary." "But Paris?" I asked.
In a village hard by Domremy she had an uncle whose wife was near her confinement; she got herself invited to go and nurse her aunt, and thereupon she opened her heart to her uncle, repeating to him a popular saying, which had spread indeed throughout the country: "Is it not said that a woman shall ruin France, and a young maid restore it?"
"Gentle King," she answered, and her low full voice thrilled through the hall to its farthermost end in the deep hush which had fallen upon it, "there is one grace and gift that I would right gladly ask of you. Here in this city of Rheims are assembled a few of mine own people from Domremy; my father, my uncle, and with them some others whom I have known and loved from childhood.
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