At length he said, looking up, "Thou knowest, Dunois, that, for thy father's sake, as well as thine own, I would full fain do thee a service." "It is not for myself I demand anything," answered Dunois.

"Thou hast my sword, and I am your prisoner--what needs more?
But it is for this noble Prince, the only hope of France, if God should call the Dauphin.

He only came hither to do me a favour--in an effort to make my fortune--in a matter which the King had partly encouraged." "Dunois," replied Crawford, "if another had told me thou hadst brought the noble Prince into this jeopardy to serve any purpose of thine own, I had told him it was false.

And now that thou dost pretend so thyself, I can hardly believe it is for the sake of speaking the truth." "Noble Crawford," said Orleans, who had now entirely recovered from his swoon, "you are too like in character to your friend Dunois, not to do him justice.

It was indeed I that dragged him hither, most unwillingly, upon an enterprise of harebrained passion, suddenly and rashly undertaken .-- Look on me all who will," he added, rising up and turning to the soldiery, "I am Louis of Orleans, willing to pay the penalty of my own folly.