What mean you ?" And I also stood in amaze, for we had heard no sound of arms.
"Go, fetch my horse," she said, and was gone.
I went with him, and we saddled and bridled a fresh courser speedily; but when we reached the door, she stood there already armed, and sprang on the horse, crying for her banner, that De Coutes gave her out of the upper window.

Then her spurs were in her horse's side, and the sparks flying from beneath his hoofs, as she galloped towards St.Loup, the English fort on the Burgundy road.

Thither we followed her, with what speed we might, yet over tardily; and when we came through crowds of people, many bearing the wounded on litters, there was she, under the wall of that fort, in a rain of arrows, holding up her banner, and crying on the French and Scots to the charge.

They answered with a cry, and went on, De Coutes and I pressing forward to be with them; but ere ever we could gain the fosse, the English had been overwhelmed, and, for the more part, slain.

For, as we found, the French captains had commanded an attack on St.Loup, and had told the Maid no word of it, whether as desiring to win honour without her, or to spare her from the peril of the onslaught, I know not.