"To the pyre with the invoker of demons! The strumpet! Death to Joan!"
"She cheated the people!"
"She denies the religion of Jesus Christ!"
"To the pyre with the idolatress! The apostate! To the pyre with her, quick and soon!"
Such are the clamors of the English and the partisans of Burgundy. The royalists or Armagnacs are much less numerous. A few of them, especially women, experience a return of pity for Joan Darc, whose abjuration incensed all those who believed her inspired. With some this indignation still is uppermost and in full force. As these sentiments are indicative of sympathy, they are not uttered aloud but whispered out of fear of the English.
"Well, though the Maid's strength once failed her, it will not fail her to-day."
"It would seem that she had not lied to us. She will now maintain until death that she is inspired of God. Poor child."
"And yet she abjured!"
"Whoever lied once may lie again."
"If she abjured it was out of fear of the flames—that can be easily understood."