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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: d'Arc, who may also have been a maid of Orleans; but this does
not prove her to have been the historic Jeanne. Secondly, as to
the covering of the face, we may mention the fact, hitherto
withheld, that it was by no means an uncommon circumstance: the
victims of the Spanish Inquisition were usually led to the stake
with veiled faces. Thirdly, the phrase "jusques a son
absentement" is hopelessly ambiguous, and may as well refer to
Pierre du Lis himself as to his sister.
These brief considerations seem to knock away all the main props
of Mr. Delepierre's hypothesis, save that furnished by the
apparent testimony of Jeanne's brothers, given at second hand in
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