“She felt now that her mission was accomplished. She resolved to return to her home, and to pass her days among the simple peasants of Domremi.
“But fame was too dazzling, and ambition tempted her to new exploits. She was taken prisoner at last by her enemies, the Burgundians, was delivered over to the English, put upon trial as a sorceress, pronounced guilty, and condemned to death.
“She wept over her hard fate. ‘I would rather be beheaded than burned,’ she said, when she reflected on the manner of her death, which was to be burned at the stake. ‘Oh, that this body should be reduced to ashes!’
JOAN OF ARC WOUNDED.
“‘O Rouen, Rouen!’ she said, ‘is it here that I must die? Here shall be my last resting-place.’