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

CHAPTER XII
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But you keep my heralds.

You kept my herald Guyenne.

If you will send him back to me, I will send you some of your men taken at the bastion Saint-Loup; they are not all dead._[1034] [Footnote 1034: May 5th.

_Trial_, vol.iii, p.

107 (Pasquerel's evidence).] Jeanne went to La Belle Croix, took an arrow, and tied her letter to it with a string, then told an archer to shoot it to the English, crying: "Read! This is the message." The English received the arrow, untied the letter, and having read it they cried: "This a message from the Armagnac strumpet." When she heard them, tears came into Jeanne's eyes and she wept.


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