The Complete Works of Mark Twain [pseud.] Joan of Arc Vol. 17 Seventeen (17)
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But they would not let me. Could I let her die, friendless and alone? Could I let her die believing I would not come? Would she let me die and she not come — with her feet free to do it if she would, and no cost upon it but only her life? Ah, she would come — she would come through the fire ! So I went. I saw her. She 222 RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC died in my arms. I buried her. Then the army was gone. I had trouble to overtake it, but my legs are long and there are many hours in a day; I ove...rtook it last night." Joan said, musingly, and as if she were thinking aloud : *Tt sounds true. If true, it were no great harm to suspend the law this one time — any would say that. It may not be true, but if it is true — " vShe turned suddenly to the man and said, *T would see your eyes — look up!" The eyes of the two met, and Joan said to the officer, ''The man is pardoned. Give you good day; you may go." Then she said to the man, "Did you know it was death to come back to the army?" "Yes," he said, "I knew it." "Then why did you do it?" The man said, quite simply: ''Because it was death.
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