her mark to a confession it was believed that not even the rack could ever make her do that so all laughed again and kept it up for three days saying the sow has six times and made six of it recollections op op arc and the palace walls got a new � a carrying a discarded rack home on its shoulder and weeping in its wake many rewards were offered for the capture of these painters but nobody applied even the english guard feigned blindness and would not see the artists at work the bishop s anger was very high now he could not reconcile himself to the idea of giving up the torture it was the idea he had invented yet and he would not cast it by so he called in some of his on the twelfth and urged the torture again but it was a failure with some s speech had wrought an effect others feared she might die under torture others did not believe that any of suffering could make her put her mark to a lying confession there were fourteen men present including the bishop eleven of them dead against the torture and stood their in spite of s abuse two with the bishop and insisted upon the torture these two were and the orator � the man whom had to read his book � thomas de the renowned and master of eloquence age has taught me charity of speech but it fails me when i think of those three names � chapter xvii another ten days wait the great i of that treasury of all valuable knowledge and all wisdom the university of paris were still weighing and considering and discussing the twelve lies i had but little to do these ten days so i spent them mainly in walks about the town with but there was no pleasure in them our spirits being so with cares and the outlook for growing so steadily darker and darker all the time and then we naturally contrasted our circumstances with hers this freedom and sunshine with her dark ness and chains our with her lonely estate our of one sort and another with her in all she was used to liberty but now she had none she was an out of door creature by nature and habit but now she was shut up day and night in a steel cage like an animal she was used to the light but now she was always in a gloom where all objects about her were dim and she was used to the thousand various sounds which are the cheer and music of a busy life but now she heard only the monotonous of the pacing his watch she had been fond of talking with her mates but now there was no one to talk to she had had an easy laugh but it was gone now ti recollections of of arc she had been bom for and and busy work and all manner of joyous but here were only and leaden hours and weary and brooding stillness and thoughts that travel day and night and night and day and round in the same circle and wear the brain and break the heart with weariness it was death in life yes death in life that is what it must have been and there was another hard thing about it all a young girl in trouble needs the soothing solace and support and sympathy of persons of her own sex and the delicate offices and gentle which only these can furnish yet in all these months of gloomy in her never saw the face of a girl or a woman think how her heart would have leaped to see such a face consider if you would realize how great of arc was remember that it was out of such a place and such that she came week after week and month after month and confronted the master of single handed and baffled their schemes defeated their plans detected and avoided their traps and broke their lines their and on the field after every engagement steadfast always true to her faith and her torture the stake and answering threats of eternal death and the pains of hell with a simple let come what may here i take my stand and will abide yes if you would realize how great was the soul how the wisdom and how the q mark twain intellect of of arc you must study her there where she fought out that long fight all alone � and not merely against the brains and deepest learning of but against the the meanest and the hardest hearts to be found in any land pagan or christian she was great in battle � we all know that great in foresight great in loyalty and patriotism great in persuading discontented chiefs and conflicting interests and passions great in the ability to discover merit and genius wherever it lay hidden great in picturesque and eloquent speech great in the gift of firing the hearts of hopeless men with noble the gift of turning into heroes slaves and into that march to death with songs upon their lips but all these are they keep hand and heart and brain up to their work there is the joy of achievement the inspiration of stir and movement the applause which success the soul is overflowing with life and energy the faculties are at white heat weariness despondency these do not exist yes of arc was great always great everywhere but she was greatest in the trials there she rose above the and of our nature and accomplished and and hopeless conditions all that her splendid of moral and intellectual forces could have accomplished if they had been by the mighty helps of hope and cheer and light the presence of friendly faces and a fair and equal fight with the great world looking on 