ot suffer a long imprisonment: and
the voices said, "Be without fear, for these things must happen." But
they did not tell me the time when I should be taken, for had I known
that I should not have made that sortie.'

'Did you not question them about the time in which you would be
taken?'

'I often inquired; but they never told me.'

'Did your voices cause you to make that sortie, and not tell you the
manner by which you would be captured?'

'Had I known the hour of my capture I should not have gone out
voluntarily; but had my voices ordered me to go and I had known, then
would I have gone all the same, whatever might have happened.'

'When you made the sally did you pass over the bridge at Compiegne?'

'I passed over the bridge and along the redoubt; and I charged with my
soldiers against John de Luxembourg's men. Twice were they driven
back as far as the quarters of the Burgundians; the third time half as
far. While so engaged the English arrived, and cut off our
communications. While returning towards the bridge, I was taken in the
meadows on the side nearest to Picardy.'

'Upon your banner, the one you carried, was not a picture painted
representing the world and two angels? What was the significance of
that?'

'My saints told me to carry that banner boldly.'

'Did you not also bear arms and a shield?'

'Not I; but the King gave my brothers a coat-of-arms; a shield with a
blue ground, on which were two _fleurs-de-lis_ of gold, and a sword
between.'

'Did you make a present to your brothers of those arms?'

'They were given my brothers by the King, without any request made by
me.'

'What kind of horse were you riding when you were captured?'

'I was mounted on a _demi-coursier_.'

'Who had given you that horse?'

'My King,' answered Joan of Arc; and she went on to tell them how she
had had fine horses purchased by the King for her use; she also gave
them an account of her few possessions.

There is, indeed, so much repetition in the questions and answers
during these long examinations, that it would be a weariness to the
reader did one minutely re-write them as they appear in the chronicle.
We shall therefore confine ourselves to the principal and most
important facts and statements which bear most prominently on our
heroine's career, and on the answers most characteristic made by her.

The remainder of that first day's trial in the prison consisted nearly
entirely of trying to elicit from Joa