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THE SIEGE OF ORLéANS FROM THE 7TH OF MARCH TO THE 28TH OF APRIL, 1429
SINCE the terrible and ridiculous discomfiture1 of the King's men in the Battle of the Herrings, the citizens of Orléans had lost all faith in their defenders2.[835] Their minds agitated3, suspicious and credulous4 were possessed5 by phantoms6 of fear and wrath7. Suddenly and without reason they believe themselves betrayed. One day it is announced that a hole big enough for a man to pass through has been made in the town wall just where it skirts the outbuildings of the Aum?ne.[836] A crowd of people hasten to the spot; they see the hole and a piece of the wall which had been restored, with two loop-holes; they fail to understand, and think themselves sold and betrayed into the enemy's hands; they rave8 and break forth9 into howls, and seek the priest in charge of the hospital to tear him to pieces.[837] A few days after, on Holy Thursday, a similar rumour10 is spread abroad: traitors11 are about to deliver up the town into the hands of the English. The folk seize their weapons; soldiers, burgesses, villeins mount[Pg i.231] guard on the outworks, on the walls and in the streets. On the morrow, the day after that on which the panic had originated, fear still possesses them.[838]
In the beginning of March the besiegers saw approaching the Norman
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besieger
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besieged
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v.斡旋,调解( intercede的现在分词 );说情 | |
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v.恳求,恳请 | |
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bishop
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判断( judgment的名词复数 ); 鉴定; 评价; 审判 | |
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chastised
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avaricious
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knights
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