Thither she herself came to visit him, and she gave gifts to such of the people of her own countryside as were gathered at Reims.
"And, Jeannot, do you fear nothing ?" one of them asked her, who had known her from a child.
"I fear nothing but treason," my master heard her reply, a word that we had afterwards too good cause to remember.
"And is she proud now that she is so great ?" asked Elliot.
"She proud! No pride has she, but sat at meat, and spoke friendly with all these manants, and it was 'tu' and 'toy,' and 'How is this one?
and that one ?' till verily, I think, she had asked for every man, woman, child, and dog in Domremy.

And that puts me in mind--" "In mind of what ?" "Of nought.

Faith, I remember not what I was going to say, for I am well weary." "But Paris ?" I asked.

"When march we on Paris ?" My master's face clouded.

"They should have set forth for Paris the very day after the sacring, which was the seventeenth of July.