. Some famous women . heard that Jeannewas a prisoner. She was in the hands of a Frenchnoble of the English party, and was treated as a prisonerof war, but her enemies planned to sell her to theEnglish, who had always said they would burn her ifthey could get her. Meanwhile she was kept in thecastle of Beaurevoir, and kindly treated by the ladies ofthe castle. They wished her to lay aside her mans dress,but she refused, saying that she had not yet had leavefrom God, She did not feel that her mission was was much distressed by the stories that she heardof the sufferings of the people
. Some famous women . heard that Jeannewas a prisoner. She was in the hands of a Frenchnoble of the English party, and was treated as a prisonerof war, but her enemies planned to sell her to theEnglish, who had always said they would burn her ifthey could get her. Meanwhile she was kept in thecastle of Beaurevoir, and kindly treated by the ladies ofthe castle. They wished her to lay aside her mans dress,but she refused, saying that she had not yet had leavefrom God, She did not feel that her mission was was much distressed by the stories that she heardof the sufferings of the people of Compiegne, the townAvhich she was trying to relieve when she was takenprisoner. She longed to go and help them. She knew,too, that she was to be sold to the English and shedreaded falling into their hands. So one night shetried to escape by leaping from the tower, a height ofsixty feet. She was found lying insensible in the ditch,but with no bones broken. She said afterwards that JEANNE DARC, THE MAID OF FRANCE 49. The Coronation of Charles VII. 50 SOME FAMOUS \YOMEN her voices had bidden her not to leap and had told herthat Compiegne would be saved. Now the voices com-forted her, bidding her beg Gods pardon for havingleaped. Jeanne soon recovered from her injuries, and Com-piegne was indeed relieved, but the Maid was sold tothe English after she had been some four months aprisoner. She was carried to several different places,and at last to Rouen, where she was imprisoned in thecastle wiih rough, rude men to guard her. No womanwas allowed to come near her; she was kept in chains,and night and day had to endure the company of thesoldiers. It was because she still hoped that some wayof escape might be shown her, that she would not giveher promise not to try to escape. Had she done so,she might have been more kindly treated ; but her greatcourage made her ready to bear anything, rather thangive up the chance of going back to her task. Jeanne was to be tried by the Church, becau
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