There they met a wounded man being brought into the town.

The Maid asked his bearers who the man was.

He was a Frenchman, they replied.

Then she said: "I have never seen the blood of a Frenchman flow without feeling my heart stand still."[1013] [Footnote 1012: _Ibid._, p.

212.] [Footnote 1013: _Ibid._, pp.