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A Heroine of France

CHAPTER XIII
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Remember that, my friends.
Let there be no fighting, no pursuit, no martial exercise, whatever the foe may threaten or do.

Tomorrow must be a day of thanksgiving and praise.

Look to it that my words are obeyed." They said she slept like a child that night; yet with the early light of day she was up, kneeling in the Cathedral with her household beside her, listening to the sound of chant and prayer, receiving the Holy Sacrament, the pledge of her Lord's love.
Not until we had returned from that first duty did she listen to what was told her anent the movements of the English.

They were drawn up in battle array upon the north side of the river, spoke those who had gone to the battlements to look.

Thinned as were their ranks, they were still a formidable host, and from the menace of their attitude it might be that they expected the arrival of reinforcements.


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