Vulgar words in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 (Page 1)
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One day the Paladin was arrogantly criticizing the patriot generals of France and said: "Look at Dunois, Bastard of Orleans-call him a general!
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If I were where I belong; if I were in the place of La Hire, or Saintrailles, or the Bastard of Orleans-well, I say nothing.
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At bottom he was all right and a good-hearted giant, without any harm in him, for it is no harm to bark, if one stops there and does not bite, and it is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
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The governor's temper got afire, and he delivered an oath at him that knocked up the dust where it struck the ground, and told him to shoulder that cask or he would carve him to cutlets and send him home in a basket.
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Some of the men had been trying to understand why Joan continued to be alert, vigorous, and confident while the strongest men in the company were fagged with the heavy marches and exposure and were become morose and irritable.
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Another day, when the inquisition had dragged along until everybody looked drowsy and tired but Joan, Brother Seguin, professor of theology at the University of Poitiers, who was a sour and sarcastic man, fell to plying Joan with all sorts of nagging questions in his bastard Limousin French-for he was from Limoges.
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Yesterday she was less than nobody to the newest recruit-to-day her command was law to La Hire, Saintrailles, the Bastard of Orleans, and all those others, veterans of old renown, illustrious masters of the trade of war.
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The Great Bastard-him of the ducal house, and governor of Orleans-had been clamoring for weeks for Joan to be sent to him, and now came another messenger, old D'Aulon, a veteran officer, a trusty man and fine and honest.
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"Damn you!" he said, "staggering and cursing around like this, and the Commander-in-Chief in the camp!
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I called to mind how Joan had once rebuked the Paladin, there in the pastures of Domremy, for uttering lightly those mighty names, La Hire and the Bastard of Orleans, and how she said that if she could but be permitted to stand afar off and let her eyes rest once upon those great men, she would hold it a privilege.
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They privately sent the word to the Bastard of Orleans.
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Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, with a body of knights and citizens, came up from the city to welcome Joan.
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She said: "Are you the bastard?"
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Then Joan began on the Bastard again: "You see here the army?"
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The Bastard confessed that it hadn't-that is, in view of the plan of campaign which she had devised and decreed.
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All arrangements having been completed for the return of the main body of the army, she took the Bastard and La Hire and a thousand men and went down to Orleans, where all the town was in a fever of impatience to have sight of her face.
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The maniac of Domremy-the fairy-banishing priest-the reverend tribunal of Toul-the doubting and superstitious Laxart-the obstinate veteran of Vaucouleurs-the characterless heir of France-the sages and scholars of the Parliament and University of Poitiers-the darling of Satan, La Hire-the masterless Bastard of Orleans, accustomed to acknowledge no way as right and rational but his own-these were the trophies of that great gift that made her the wonder and mystery that she was.
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Just as we were drifting in that suffocating stillness past a great cannon that stood just within a raised portcullis, with nothing between me and it but the moat, a most uncommon jackass in there split the world with his bray, and I fell out of the saddle.
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The English warders on the battlements laughed a coarse laugh, forgetting that every one must begin, and that there had been a time when they themselves would have fared no better when shot by a jackass.
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It was on this march that the histories say Dunois told Joan that the English were expecting reinforcements under the command of Sir John Fastolfe, and that she turned upon him and said: "Bastard, Bastard, in God's name I warn you to let me know of his coming as soon as you hear of it; for if he passes without my knowledge you shall lose your head!"
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Hardly now, Bastard.
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"More, Bastard?
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She cried out: "Bastard, Bastard, will ye play always with these English?
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She turned to Dunois, and said, "Bastard, you have sense, answer me this: if this attack is made and the bastille taken, how much better off would we be than we are now?"
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The Bastard hesitated, and then began some rambling talk not quite germane to the question.
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Joan interrupted him and said: "That will not do, good Bastard, you have answered.
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Since the Bastard is not able to mention any advantage to be gained by taking that bastille and stopping there, it is not likely that any of you could better the matter.
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Bastard, this council has a general plan, I take it; without going into details, what is it?"
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Bastard, tell me the truth-does not this council know that there is no other course for us than the one I am speaking of?"
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Take this message back, not to the council-I have no speeches for those disguised ladies' maids-but to the Bastard and La Hire, who are men.
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I've been an ass.
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Yes, that is all there is to it-I've been an ass."
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If you had manifested fatigue upon noticing that you had been an ass, that would have been logical, that would have been rational; whereas it seems to me that to manifest surprise was to be again an ass, because the condition of intellect that can enable a person to be surprised and stirred by inert monotonousness is a-" "Now that is enough, Noel Rainguesson; stop where you are, before you get yourself into trouble.
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The Bastard of Orleans was present also, and it is through him that we know what happened.
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The Bastard said that when she said these words her face lit up as with a flame, and she was like one in an ecstasy.
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The Grand Staff rode with her, clothed in shining splendors of costume and decorations: the Duke d'Alencon; the Bastard of Orleans; the Sire de Boussac, Marshal of France; the Lord de Granville, Master of the Crossbowmen; the Sire de Culan, Admiral of France; Ambroise de Lor; Etienne de Vignoles, called La Hire; Gautier de Brusac, and other illustrious captains.
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Gautier de Brusac was spokesman for the timid ones; Joan's side was resolutely upheld by d'Alencon, the Bastard, La Hire, the Admiral of France, the Marshal de Boussac, and all the other really important chiefs.
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And before he could get out anything more, D'Alencon was on his feet, and the Bastard of Orleans, and a half a dozen others, all thundering at once, and pouring out their indignant displeasure upon any and all that might hold, secretly or publicly, distrust of the wisdom of the Commander-in-Chief.
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Then the spectacle was fine; turreted gray walls and towers, and streaming bright flags, and jets of red fire and gushes of white smoke in long rows, all standing out with sharp vividness against the deep leaden background of the sky; and then the whizzing missiles began to knock up the dirt all around us, and I felt no more interest in the scenery.
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The Earl of Suffolk was hemmed in and surrounded, and the Duke d'Alencon and the Bastard of Orleans demanded that he surrender himself.