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

CHAPTER XIV
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She replied that she had three councillors, one of whom was always with her.

Another was constantly going and coming; the third was the one with whom the other two deliberated.
Sire d'Aulon, more curious than the King, besought and requested her to let him see this Council for once.
She replied: "Your virtues are not great enough and you are not worthy to behold it."[1170] [Footnote 1170: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

219, 220.] The good squire never asked again.

If he had read the Bible he would have known that Elisha's servant did not see the angels beheld by the prophet (2 Kings VI, 16, 17).
And yet Jeanne imagined that her Council had appeared to the King and his court.
"My King," she said later, "my King and many besides saw and heard the Voices that came to me.

The Count of Clermont and two or three others were with him."[1171] [Footnote 1171: _Ibid._, vol.i, p.


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