“The last two occasions on which you have heard this Voice, did a brightness come?” “The brightness comes at the same time as the Voice.” “Besides the Voice, do you see anything?” “I will not tell you all; I have not leave; my oath does not touch on that. My Voice is good and to be honoured. I am not bound to answer you about it. I request that the points on which I do not now answer may be given me in writing.” “The Voice from whom you ask counsel, has it a face and eyes?” “You shall not know yet. There is a saying among children, that ‘Sometimes one is hanged for speaking the truth.’” “Do you know if you are in the grace of God?” “If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it. I think I was about thirteen when it came to me for the first time.” “In your youth, did you play in the fields with the other children?” “I certainly went sometimes, I do not know at what age.” “Do the Domremy people side with the Burgundians or with the opposite party?” “I knew only one Burgundian[24] at Domremy: I should have been quite willing for them to cut off his head—always had it pleased God.” “The Maxey people, were they Burgundians, or opposed to the Burgundians?” “They were Burgundians. As soon as I knew that my Voices were for the King of France, I loved the Burgundians no more. The Burgundians will have war unless they do what they ought; I know it by my Voice. The English were already in France when my Voices began to come to me. I do not remember being with the children of Domremy when they went to fight against those of Maxey for the French side: but I certainly saw the Domremy children who had fought with those of Maxey coming back many times, wounded and bleeding.” “Had you in your youth any intention of fighting the Burgundians?” “I had a great will and desire that my King should have his own Kingdom.” “When you had to come into France, did you wish to be a man?” “I have answered this elsewhere.” “Did you not take the animals to the fields?” “I have already answered this also. When I was bigger and had come to years of discretion, I did not look after them generally; but I helped to take them to the meadows and to a Castle called the Island,[25] for fear of the soldiers. I do not remember if I led them in my childhood or no.” “What have you to say about a certain tree which is near to your village?”