"Seeing that thou hast returned to the bosom of the Church by the grace of God, and hast revoked and denied all thy errors, we, the Bishop aforesaid, commit thee to perpetual prison, with the bread of sorrow and water of anguish, to purge thy soul by solitary penitence." A tumult arose in the square at this, and stones were thrown amid cries of disappointment and rage; for the English feared that they were to be cheated of their prey, and many were angered that there was to be no burning. In the midst of it, Jeanne called feverishly to the priests about her: "Now, you people of the Church, lead me to your prison; let me be no longer in the hands of the English." One of the priests left her side, and ran over to Cauchon to ask where she was to be taken. "Back whence she came," said Cauchon grimly. Dismayed, miserable beyond words, Jeanne was taken back to the irons, and the unspeakable torment of her awful cell. ----- [28] "Into France." A phrase used frequently by people living on the borderland; also because all the country about Domremy and adjacent villages was held by the enemy. This must be crossed to reach the king. Where he dwelt was regarded as the real France. [29] Herring, sprats, shad--in warm countries acquire, probably from their food, highly poisonous properties so as to be dangerous to persons eating them. CHAPTER XXVII FOR HER COUNTRY "_There was grandeur in that peasant girl,--in her exalted faith at Domremy, in her heroism at Orléans, in her triumph at Reims, in her trial and martyrdom at Rouen. But unless she had suffered, nothing would have remained of this grandeur in the eyes of posterity._" LORD. "_Great Women" in "Beacon Lights of History._" In the afternoon the Duchess of Bedford sent a tailor to Jeanne with a woman's dress. She put it on without a word, allowed her hair to be dressed in feminine fashion, and to be covered by a coif. Courcelles, Loyseleur, Isambard and other priests also visited her, telling her of the great pity and mercy of the churchmen, and warning her that should she return to her errors the Church must abandon her. And so at last they left her. Left her to her thoughts and her conscience which now began to trouble her. For in that moment of recantation Jeanne had been false to the highest that was in her: the Voice of God speaking in her heart which was higher than the Church. "I have sinned," she cried in anguish. "I have sinned grievously." And piteously she invoked her Saints.