And when all the country betwixt this place and Rheims has submitted to your power, then follow yourself, and take your kingdom!" Ah me!--to think that he, a King, could consent again to let her go thus, whilst he remained in ease and indolence surrounded by his Court! But so it was.

What she could not persuade him to do himself, she at last obtained leave to do for him, and with a joyful face she came to us with the news: "Gentlemen and my good comrades, be ready for a speedy march; we will go forward and clear the way; and afterwards the Dauphin shall follow and be made King!".