Afterwards shall the Dauphin receive consecration at Rheims, and the crown of France shall be set upon his head, in token that he is the anointed of the Lord.' "'And who has told you all this, my child ?' asked De Baudricourt then, answering gently, as one speaks within a church.
"'Mes voix,' she answered, speaking as one who dreams, and in dreaming listens.
"'What voices ?' asked De Baudricourt, 'and have you naught but voices to instruct you in such great matters ?' "'Yes, Sire,' she answered softly, 'I have seen the great Archangel Michael, his sword drawn in his hand; and I know that he has drawn it for the deliverance of France, and that though he has chosen so humble an instrument as myself, yet that to him and to the Lord of Heaven will he the victory and the glory.' "When she had thus spoken there was a great silence in the hall, in which might have been heard the fall of a pin, and I vow that whether it were trick of summer sunshine or no, the light about the maiden seemed to grow brighter and brighter.

Her face was just slightly uplifted as one who listens, and upon her lips there was a smile.
"'And I know that you will send me to the Dauphin, Robert de Baudricourt,' she suddenly said, 'because my voices tell me so.' "We all looked at De Baudricourt, who sat chin on hand, gazing at the maiden as though he would read her very soul.

We waited, wondering, for him to speak At last he did.
"'Well, my girl, I will think of all this.

We have till next year, by your own showing, ere these great things shall come to pass.

So get you home, and see what your father and mother say to all this, and whether the Archangel Michael comes again or no.