and what can i do, but follow jack dunois' example and go back to bed too. good night, charlie. good night. and you, my one faithful what comfort have you for saint joan? well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? they just leave you in the ditch to bleed to death, and the next thing is you meet them down there for all the airs they give themselves. what i say is, you've got as good a right to your notions as they have to theirs and perhaps better. you see, it's like this, if... [bell tolls] excuse me, pressing appointment. o god that madest this beautiful earth when will it be ready to receive thy saints? how long, o lord, how long? shaw wrote of joan "it is hardly surprising that she was judicially burned "ostensibly for a number of capital crimes "which we no longer punish as such "but essentially for what we call unwomanly and insufferable presumption." then he added, "as her actual condition was pure upstart "there were only two opinions about her. "one was that she was miraculous the other that she was unbearable." thi