"Jeanne, sois bonne et sage enfant; va souvent a l'eglise"; that was their first message to me, when I was but a child; and now you say the same to me--be a good girl.

Thus I know that your heart is right, and that when my Lord's time is come you will send me with His message to the Dauphin.' "And so saying she bent again in a modest reverence before us.

Yet let me tell you that as she did so, every man of us sprang to his feet by an impulse which each one felt, yet none could explain.

As one man we rose, and bowed before her, as she retired from the hail with the simple, stately grace of a young queen.

Not till the door had closed behind her did we bethink us that it was to a humble peasant girl we had paid unconscious homage.