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The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XII
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52-56.] The lords who had brought the convoy decided that they would set out immediately after the unloading.

Having accomplished the first part of its task, the army would return to Blois to fetch the remaining victuals and ammunition, for everything had not been brought at once.
Hearing that the soldiers, with whom she had come, were going away, Jeanne wished to go with them; and, after having so urgently asked to be taken to Orleans, now that she was before the gates of the city, her one idea was to go back.[937] Thus is the soul of the mystic blown hither and thither by the breath of the Spirit.

Now as always Jeanne was guided by impulses purely spiritual.

She would not be parted from these soldiers because she believed they had made their peace with God, and she feared that she might not find others as contrite.

For her, victory or defeat depended absolutely on whether the combatants were in a state of grace or of sin.


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