The articles, in which the former questions put to her and answered by her, were now repeated in the form of accusations, were then read to her one by one; her sorcery, sacrilege, etc., being taken as facts.  To a few she repeated, with various forcible and fine turns of phrase, her previous answers, with here and there a new explanation; but to the great majority she referred simply to her former replies, or denied the charge, as follows:  “The second article concerning sortilege, superstitious acts and divination, she denied, and in respect to adoration (i.e. allowing herself to be adored) said:  If any kissed her hands or her garments, it was not by her will, and that she kept herself from it as much as she could; and the rest of the article she denies.”  This is a specimen of the manner in which she responded, with a clear-headed and undisturbed intelligence, point after point—­ipsa Johanna negat, is the usual refrain:  or else she referred with dignity to previous replies as her sole answer.  But sometimes the girl was moved to indignation, sometimes added a word in her own defence:  “As for fairies she knew not what they were, and as for her education she had been well and duly instructed what to believe, as a good child should.”  This was her answer to the article in which all the folk-lore of Domremy, all the fairy tales, had been collected into a solemn statement of heresy.  The matter of dress was once more treated in endless detail, with many interjected questions and reports of what she had already said:  and at the end, answering the statement that woman’s dress was most fit for woman’s work, Jeanne added the quick mot:  “As for the usual work of women, there are enough of other women to do it.”  On another occasion when the report ran that she claimed to have done all things by the counsel of God, she interrupted and said “that it ought to be, all that I have done well.”  To her former answer that she had yielded to the desire of the French knights in attacking Paris, she added the fine words, “It seemed to me that it was their duty to attack their adversaries.”  In respect to her visions she added to her former answer, “that she had not asked advice of bishop, cure, or any other before believing her revelations, but had many times prayed God to reveal them to others of her party.”  About calling her saints when she required their aid she added, that she asked God and Our Lady to send her council and comfort, and immediately her heavenly visitors came; and that this was the prayer she made: 

“Gentle God, in honour of Your(1) passion, I pray You, if You love me, that You would reveal to me how I ought to answer these people of the Church.  I know well by what command it was that I took this dress, but I know not in what manner I ought to give it up.  For this may it please You to teach me.”