Saints receive alms as they give them: for the love of God.

There was a story that her betrothed seeing her living during the trial in company with bad women, had abandoned his demand for justice, renouncing a bride of such bad repute.[371] Such calumnies were only too readily believed.
[Footnote 371: _Trial_, vol.i, p.215.Article 9 of the deed of accusation is drawn up as the result of an inquiry made at Neufchateau.] After a fortnight's sojourn at Neufchateau, Jacques d'Arc and his family returned to Domremy.

The orchard, the house, the monastery, the village, the fields,--in what a state of desolation did they behold them! The soldiers had plundered, ravaged, burnt everything.

Unable to exact ransom from the villeins who had taken flight, the men-at-arms had destroyed all their goods.

The monastery once as proud as a fortress, with its watchman's tower, was now nothing but a heap of blackened ruins.