7 _et seq._] Meanwhile Jeanne was living a life of illusion.

Knowing nothing of the influences she was under, incapable of recognising in her Voices the echo of a human voice or the promptings of her own heart, she responded timidly to the saints when they bade her fare forth into France: "I am a poor girl, and know not how to ride a horse or how to make war."[299] [Footnote 299: _Trial_, vol.i, pp.

52, 53.] As soon as she began to receive these revelations she gave up her games and her excursions.

Henceforth she seldom danced round the fairies' tree, and then only in play with the children.[300] It would seem that she also took a dislike to working in the fields, and especially to herding the flocks.

From early childhood she had shown signs of piety.