I will certainly speak with the King of it.

He is young; he is not firm of purpose; his own heart has never before been set upon his kingdom.
One cannot expect a man's nature to change in a day, even though his eyes may have been opened, and his misgivings set at rest.

If one of the Generals were won to her side, the troubles that beset us would be well-nigh overcome." A great clamour of sound from the larger audience chamber, from which we had retired to talk at ease, warned us now that the King and the Maid had appeared from their private conference.

His face was very grave, and there was more of earnestness and nobility in his expression than I had thought that countenance capable of expressing.

The Maid was pale, as though with deep emotion; but a glorious light shone in her eyes, and when the Court ladies and gallants crowded round her, asking her questions, and gazing upon her as though she were a being from another sphere, she seemed lifted up above them into another region, and though she answered them without fear, she put aside, in some wonderful way, all those questions which were intrusions into holy things, speaking so fearlessly and so simply that all were amazed at her.
She came to us at last, weary, yet glad at heart; and her first question was for her followers, and whether they had been lodged and fed.