They were hindering her from fulfilling her mission,--perhaps from giving the promised sign,--and they were involving her with themselves in enterprises less certain of success and less noble in spirit.

Hence her sorrow and her wrath.
[Footnote 928: _Chronique de la Pucelle_, p.

273.] Even after the discomfiture of her arrival, in order that she might please God, she did not consider herself freed from the obligation of offering peace to her enemies.[929] And since she could not go straight to Talbot's camp she wanted to appear before the fort of Saint-Jean-le-Blanc.[930] [Footnote 929: Opinion of Martin Berruyer, in Lanery d'Arc, _Memoires et consultations_, ch.

vii.] [Footnote 930: _Trial_, vol.iii, pp.

78, 214.] There was no one left behind the palisades.