'No,' she answered, 'he was a false preacher; and he accused me of having done things which I never did.'
'But,' then said Cauchon, 'do you mean to tell us that you still persist in saying that you have been sent by God?'
To which Joan replied that that was still her belief.
'Then,' continued the Bishop, 'you deny that to which you swore on oath only last Thursday?'
'My voices,' said Joan, 'have told me since then that I had committed a bad deed in saying that I had not done the things which I have done!'
'Then,' continued the Bishop, with eagerness, 'you retract your abjuration?'
'It was,' said Joan of Arc, 'from the fear of being burnt that I retracted what I had done; but I never intended to deny or revoke my voices.'
'But then,' said Cauchon, 'are you now no longer afraid of being burnt?'
'I had rather die than endure any longer what I have now to undergo.'
And with these broken-hearted words of the sufferer ended this long mockery of a trial, so patiently endured during three weariful months by the martyr Maid.