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Excerpt from Footsteps of Jeanne D'arc: A Pilgrimage
Here the dead level of the north of Europe first breaks into the outlying billows which Nature has tossed into the petrified tempest Of the Alpine chain. The stately front of Rheims has reminded the traveller by train Of the heroine of the fifteenth century, and, with a pause Of pity for her fate, he passes on to some other drift of thought - to the risks to man in woman's suf frage, possibly. Before he dives deeper into this drift, it will do him no harm to rub up his recollections of Joan of Are, and to try if all the histories he has read have given her equal personality with the myths of early fable, or the beings of fiction created out of smoke. Though he may have a strong Opinion as to the nature of her Spiritual claims, he may find his conception of her character dim and broken as a reflection upon the surface of a ruffled lake, and his liveliest impression of her produced after all by actual pictures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
