42/58 And the prisoner could never do enough to obtain peace: "joy's greatest treasure."[1243] [Footnote 1243: _Poesies de Charles d'Orleans_, ed. 175-176.] No, despite her revelations, the picture Jeanne imagined of her fair Duke was not the true one. They were never to meet; but if they had met there would have been serious misunderstandings between them, and they would have remained incomprehensible one to the other. Jeanne's elemental, straight-forward way of thinking could never have accorded with the ideas of so great a noble and so courteous a poet. |