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

CHAPTER III
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No wild agitation, no frenzy.

Merely anxious and intreating, she dragged herself on her knees towards the priest.

She did not flee before God's holy name.
Messire Jean Fournier concluded that no devil was within her.
Left alone in the house with Catherine, Jeanne, who now understood the meaning of the ceremony, showed strong resentment towards Messire Jean Fournier.

She reproached him with having suspected her: "It was wrong of him," she said to her hostess, "for, having heard my confession, he ought to have known me."[411] [Footnote 411: _Trial_, vol.ii, p.

446.] She would have thanked the priest of Vaucouleurs had she known how he was furthering the fulfilment of her mission by subjecting her to this ordeal.


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