"Death to the magician!"
At the same time other voices from the crowd cry:
"Poor, brave girl! Mercy for her!"
"Lord God! How can she deny her visions! Mercy! Mercy!"
"It would be a lie and cowardice on her part! Courage! Courage!"
Bishop Cauchon rises, terrible, and with his hands extended to heaven makes ready to utter the final curse upon the accused. "Joan!" he cries, "listen to your sentence. In the name of the Church, we, Peter, Bishop of Beauvais by the mercy of God, declare you—"
Joan Darc interrupts the approaching imprecation with a shriek of terror, clasps her hands, and collapses upon the scaffold, crying: "Mercy! Mercy!"
"Do you submit yourself to the judgment of the Church?" again asks Bishop Cauchon.
Livid and her teeth chattering with terror, Joan Darc answers: "Yes, I submit myself!"
"Do you renounce your apparitions and visions as false, sacrilegious, and diabolical?" the Bishop asks.