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

CHAPTER III
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Like those who walk in their sleep she was calm in the face of obstacles and yet quietly persistent.

In the house, in the garden, in the meadow, she continued to sleep that marvellous slumber, in which she dreamed of the Dauphin, of his knights, and of battles with angels hovering above.
[Footnote 346: _Trial_, vol.i, p.

53.] She found it impossible to be silent; on all occasions her secret escaped from her.

She was always prophesying, but she was never believed.

On St.John the Baptist's Eve, about a month after her return, she said sententiously to Michel Lebuin, a husbandman of Burey, who was quite a boy: "Between Coussey and Vaucouleurs is a girl who in less than a year from now will cause the Dauphin to be anointed King of France."[347] [Footnote 347: _Ibid._, p.


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