i am the masteexecutioner of rouen, a highly skilled mystery. i am come to tell your lordship that your orders have been obeyed. i crave your pardon, master executioner, and i will see that you lose nothing by having no relics to sell. i have your word, have i, that nothing remains, not a bone, not a nail, not a hair? her heart would not burn, but everything else that was left is at the bottom of the river. you've heard the last of her. hmph! the last of her, i wonder! [snoring] [murmuring] [knock on door] come in. [laughter] why this mirth, gentlemen? i congratulate you on having invented an extraordinarily comic dress. why, i do not understand. you are all in fancy dress. i am properly dressed. all dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? pardon me, i'm here on serious business and cannot engage in frivolous discussion. i am sent to announce that, um... now, "joan of arc, formerly known as the maid, "having been the subject of an inquiry instituted by the bishop of orleans"-- oh, they remember me still at orleans. "by the bis

i would do a lady's work in the house, spin or weave against any woman in rouen. if you are so clever at woman's work, why do you not stay at home and do it? there are plenty of other women to do it, there is nobody to do my work. come, we are wasting time over trifles. joan, i am going to put a most solemn question to you. now take care how you answer for your life and salvation are at stake on it. will you, for all that you have said and done, be it good or bad, accept the judgment of god's church on earth? i am a faithful child of the church. i will obey the church-- you will. --provided it does not command anything impossible. she imputes to the church the error and folly of commanding the impossible. you command me to declare that all that i have said and done, and that all the visions and revelations that i have had were not from god, then that is impossible. i will not declare it for anything in the world. and in case the church should bid me do anything contrary to the command that i have from god, i will not consent to it, no matter what it may be. my lor