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t, and it made me shiver again, though it was so long ago. It was really not very long gone by, but it seemed so, because so much had happened since. "In what shape and form did St. Michael appear?" "As to that, I have not received permission to speak." "What did the archangel say to you that first time?" "I cannot answer you to-day." Meaning, I think, that she would have to get permission of her Voices first. Presently, after some more questions as to the revelations which had been conveyed through her to the King, she complained of the unnecessity of all this, and said: "I will say again, as I have said before many times in these sittings, that I answered all questions of this sort before the court at Poitiers, and I would that you would bring here the record of that court and read from that. Prithee, send for that book." There was no answer. It was a subject that had to be got around and put aside. That book had wisely been gotten out of the way, for it contained things which would be very awkward here. Among them was a decision that Joan's mission was from God, whereas it was the intention of this inferior court to show that it was from the devil; also a decision permitting Joan to wear male attire, whereas it was the purpose of this court to make the male attire do hurtful work against her. "How was it that you were moved to come into France--by your own desire?" "Yes, and by command of God. But that it was His will, I would not have come. I would sooner have had my body torn in sunder by horses than come, lacking that." Beaupere shifted once more to the matter of the male attire, now, and proceeded to make a solemn talk about it. That tried Joan's patience; and presently she interrupted and said: "It is a trifling thing and of no consequence. And I did not put it on by counsel of any man, but by command of God." "Robert de Baudricourt did not order you to wear it?" "No." "Did you think you did well in taking the dress of a man?" "I did well to do whatsoever thing God commanded me to do." "But in this particular case do you think you did well in taking the dress of a man?" "I have done nothing but by command of God." Beaupere made various attempts to lead her into contradictions of herself; also to put her words and acts in disaccord with the Scriptures. But it was lost time. He did not succeed. He returned to her visions, the light which shone about them, her relation
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