This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... from readiness to suffer or do anything she believed God would have her do. At the siege of Orleans she was severely wounded by an arrow. She wept bitterly at the pain, but when some one advised her to have some magic spells, thought to be powerful, said over the wound, she firmly refused. "I had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... from readiness to suffer or do anything she believed God would have her do. At the siege of Orleans she was severely wounded by an arrow. She wept bitterly at the pain, but when some one advised her to have some magic spells, thought to be powerful, said over the wound, she firmly refused. "I had rather die," she said, "than sin or do anything contrary to the will of God." And, all through, she only acted as a messenger of mercy. War was, to her, only the rough road to peace. She wept over a slain enemy. She never herself carried her sword into battle, but only her white lily banner, lest she should hurt any one. In her great purpose she never lost the woman's pitiful heart. Once, after a great victory, seeing some of her own soldiers beating and ill-using a prisoner, she sprang from her horse, took the wounded enemy's head in her arms, and soothed and comforted him until he died. And, in the presence of mortal peril, she was calm and clear-sighted as when watching her father's flocks. Often she saw danger threatening others which they could not see. Once standing beside a prince of the blood royal, before a fortress, she warned him of a gun pointed against him and saved his life. Her vision into heavenly realities made her sight clearer for earthly duty and danger. And so she worked steadfastly on for her great purpose of delivering her people from the horrors of war, contending not only against the open enemy without, but against the treachery of indolent and base men in the court, until the low-minded courtiers, who envied her success and hated her holy simplicity and earnestness, succeeded in their intrigues against her; and at last she was betrayed into the hands of the foe, and was kept in prison, and tried without mercy, and at...
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