But by St.Michael and all his angels!--how she did confound them all! She asked no help from lawyers, though one did offer himself to her.

She called no witnesses herself; but she questioned the witnesses brought against her, and also the man who would fain have become her lord, and out of their own mouths did she convict them of lying and hypocrisy and conspiracy, so that she was triumphantly acquitted, and her judges called her a most wonderful child, and told her mother to be proud of such a daughter!" I saw a flush rise to Bertrand's cheek, a flush as of pride and joy.

And indeed, I myself rejoiced to hear the end of the tale; for it did seem as though this maiden had been persecuted with rancour and injustice, and that is a thing which no man can quietly endure to hear or see.
"And how have they of Domremy behaved themselves to her since ?" I asked; and Bertrand listened eagerly for the answer.
"Oh, they have taken her to favour once more; her father has been kind again; her mother ever loved Jeanne much, for her gentleness and beauty and helpfulness at home.

All the people love her, when not stirred to mockery by such fine pretensions.

If she will remain quietly at home like a wise and discreet maiden, no one will long remember against her her foolish words and dreams." As we rode through the fields and woodlands towards Domremy, the light began to take the golden hue which it does upon the autumn afternoon, and upon that day it shone with a wonderful radiance such as is not uncommon after rain.