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JOAN D ARC.
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two saints, and in spite of the height of the tower, to leap
down from the top, in order to save myself, by which I re-
ceived a severe wound. I was induced to it, because I pre-
ferred death to falling into their hands, but I still hope that I
shall not perish. I recommended my soul to God, and crossed
myself before I took the leap. 1 did not think I should kill
myself in doing it, but I hoped to escape falling into the
hands of the English. When my senses returned, after the
falj, I did not, as you pretend, blaspheme God and the saints,
for I have never been in the habit of swearing. Saint Ca-
therine told me that Compeigne would be relieved” (this
was actually the case), “ and that 1 ought to put on a good
countenance. She added, that I had committed a great sin
in thus precipitating myself from the tower, after she had
forbidden me ; but I confessed for it, and she assured me
that my sin would be forgiven. I know not what to answer
to your question, whether I believe myself capable to com-
mit mortal sin, except that I know nothing about it, and that
I refer myself entirely to God.
il There is not a single day that 1 do not hear the saints
speaking to me in my prison, and I follow their advice in every
thing, because they come to me from God, and I have never
said or done any thing, up to this day, but by their direction.
They revealed to me, on the second day of my examination,
many things concerning the king, of which X much wish he
were informed. I deprived myself of drinking in wine the
king’s health, according to what was said to me by the two
saints. I do not know whether they would, as you suggest to
me, charge themselves with informing the king of those
things. I am ignorant whether he has any revelations, but if
he has not, it is no doubt the will of God, and I have nothing-
more to do with it.
“ I will refuse always to answer upon any thing which re-
gards the king and queen of France. I have sworn to speak
the truth, only with respect to what regards this trial, and
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two saints, and in spite of the height of the tower, to leap
down from the top, in order to save myself, by which I re-
ceived a severe wound. I was induced to it, because I pre-
ferred death to falling into their hands, but I still hope that I
shall not perish. I recommended my soul to God, and crossed
myself before I took the leap. 1 did not think I should kill
myself in doing it, but I hoped to escape falling into the
hands of the English. When my senses returned, after the
falj, I did not, as you pretend, blaspheme God and the saints,
for I have never been in the habit of swearing. Saint Ca-
therine told me that Compeigne would be relieved” (this
was actually the case), “ and that 1 ought to put on a good
countenance. She added, that I had committed a great sin
in thus precipitating myself from the tower, after she had
forbidden me ; but I confessed for it, and she assured me
that my sin would be forgiven. I know not what to answer
to your question, whether I believe myself capable to com-
mit mortal sin, except that I know nothing about it, and that
I refer myself entirely to God.
il There is not a single day that 1 do not hear the saints
speaking to me in my prison, and I follow their advice in every
thing, because they come to me from God, and I have never
said or done any thing, up to this day, but by their direction.
They revealed to me, on the second day of my examination,
many things concerning the king, of which X much wish he
were informed. I deprived myself of drinking in wine the
king’s health, according to what was said to me by the two
saints. I do not know whether they would, as you suggest to
me, charge themselves with informing the king of those
things. I am ignorant whether he has any revelations, but if
he has not, it is no doubt the will of God, and I have nothing-
more to do with it.
“ I will refuse always to answer upon any thing which re-
gards the king and queen of France. I have sworn to speak
the truth, only with respect to what regards this trial, and