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That was her favourite battle cry! It was God who should give the victory. But it was no easy victory we were to win that day. The English fought with the energy of despair. They knew as well as we that when Les Tourelles fell the siege would be raised. True they had their bastilles upon the north side of the river to fall back upon, since the Maid's counsel of destruction had not been followed.
This was virtually the end of the siege of Orleans. The broken bridge on the Loire had been rudely mended, with a great gouttiere and planks, and the people of Orleans had poured out over it to take the Tourelles in flank the English being thus taken between Jeanne's army on the one side and the citizens on the other.
A curve in the lane brought them suddenly to an old gateway, with a crumbling stone bench in a nook beside it a bench where the wayfarer used to sit and wait for alms, when the site of Les Tourelles was occupied by a monastery.
"Why is Jersey the peculiar haunt of the vulgar?" she wondered. "It is such a lovely place that it deserves to be visited by something better than the refuse of Margate and Ramsgate." There was a meadow-path which lessened the distance between Les Tourelles and Mount Orgueil.
We were not used to this, and were astonished. But when they saw the Maid, there was an immediate stir, and the eager question flew from mouth to mouth. "Where is she going? Whither is she bound?" Joan heard it, and called out: "Whither would ye suppose? I am going to take the Tourelles."
Although the château is often inhospitably closed to visitors, its exterior, with innumerable towers and tourelles, and the terraces, gardens, and vast park, nearly seven miles in circumference, are well worth a visit.
Do not retreat. The fort will soon be yours!" How should Pierre know that this was the cry with which the Maid had rallied her broken men at Orleans when the fort of Les Tourelles fell? What he did know was that something seemed to spring up within him to answer that call. He felt that he would rather die than desert such a leader. The figure on the horse turned away as if to go.
That night was Friday, yet, so worn were we all that the Maid bade us sup, and herself took some meat and a little wine in her water, though commonly she fasted on Friday. We opened, and there stood a tall knight, who louted low to the Maid, cap in hand, and she bade him drink to the taking of Les Tourelles that should be to-morrow.
However it was, the fact seems certain that their plan failed at first, the English having themselves abandoned one of the smaller forts on the right side of the river and concentrated their forces in the greater ones of Les Augustins and Les Tourelles on the left bank. For all this, reference to the map is necessary, which will make it quite clear.
Let Miss Tempest bear this in mind when she comes home." Roderick drove back to Les Tourelles with this message, which was in some respects reassuring, or at any rate afforded a certainty less appalling than Violet's measureless fears. Vixen was sitting on the pilgrim's bench beside the manor house gateway, watching for her lover's return.
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