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At that time I heard my voices often, with that one of which I have already spoken. B. 'Tell me, now, by whose advice did you come to wear the dress of a man? Joan of Arc refused to answer, in spite of being repeatedly told to do so. B. 'What did Baudricourt say to you when you left? B. 'What do you know regarding the Duke of Orleans, now a prisoner in England?
My faithful knight need never mourn or weep for me; for that help and comfort will never be withheld. Of this I have the promise clear and steadfast!" I was with her when she went to see her father. It was dark, and the old man sat with his brother-in-law, Durand Laxart he who had helped her to her first interview with De Baudricourt in one of the best rooms of the inn.
Probably even now he thought of her as surrounded by troopers and men-at-arms, instead of the princes and peers with whom henceforth Jeanne's lot was to be cast; but in the former case there would have perhaps been less to fear than in the latter. Anyhow, Jeanne's communications with her family were more painful to her than had been the jeers of Baudricourt or the exorcism of the cure.
"What did Baudricourt say to you when you left?" She said it was necessary for her to dress as a man. "Did your Voice advise it?" Joan merely answered placidly: "I believe my Voice gave me good advice." It was all that could be got out of her, so the questions wandered to other matters, and finally to her first meeting with the King at Chinon.
Among the crowd who gathered to see Joan depart was de Baudricourt, who then made amends for his rudeness and churlish behaviour on her first visit by presenting her with his own sword, and bidding her heartily god-speed. 'Advienne que pourra! was his parting salute. The journey between Vaucouleurs and Chinon occupied eleven days.
"I thank you, Seigneur de Baudricourt," she answered, as she took the weapon, and permitted me to sling it for her in the belt for the purpose which she already wore, "I will keep your gift, and remember your good words, and how that you have been chosen of heaven to send me forth thus, and have done the bidding of the Lord, as I knew that so true a man must needs do at the appointed time.
"'Who is your Lord, my child? asked De Baudricourt, not laughing now, but pulling at his beard and frowning in perplexity. "'Even the Lord of Heaven, Sire, she answered, and her hands clasped themselves loosely together whilst her eyes looked upward with a smile such as I have seen on none other face before. 'He that is my Lord and your Lord and the Lord of this realm of France.
France had been sold and betrayed by one bad woman; but here was the Maid who should arise to save! I knew it in my heart; yet I still spoke on and asked questions, for I must needs satisfy De Baudricourt, I must needs be able to answer all that he would certainly ask. "How old are you, fair maiden?"
"Robert de Baudricourt will have none of me or my words," she replied, "nevertheless before Mid-Lent I must be with the King, if I should wear my feet up to my knees; for nobody in the world, be it king, duke, or the King of Scotland's daughter, can save the kingdom of France except me alone: though I would rather spin beside my poor mother, and this is not my work: but I must go and do it, because my Lord so wills it."
A soldier named Bertrand de Poulangy, who was one of the garrison of Vaucouleurs, was an eye-witness of the meeting. He accompanied Joan of Arc later on to Chinon, and left a record of the almost brutal manner with which Baudricourt received the Maid.
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