“Come,” he whispered. “Let’s be going.”
But calmly, courageously Jeanne faced the Governor.
“I go, Sire Robert, but I shall come again. For it is you who are appointed by the will of Messire to send me with an escort of men-at-arms to the aid of the Dauphin. My Voices have said so.”
Mad though they deemed the maiden, the men-at-arms and their Captain were impressed by the girl’s gravity and noble bearing as she spoke. In silence, therefore, they permitted the pair to pass from the room.
CHAPTER XI
A Trying Time
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“A Prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.” St. Matthew 13:57. |
At the end of the week Lassois took Jeanne home. It was a return fraught with unpleasantness.