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BY LAURA E. RICHARDS AUTHOR OF "FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE," "ABIGAIL ADAMS AND HER TIMES," "ELIZABETH FRY," ETC. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK   LONDON 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE MEMORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT "ALSO A SOLDIER" The extracts from "Joan of Arc," by Francis C. Lowell, are used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. Selections from "The Maid of France," by Andrew Lang, are used by permission of Messrs. Longmans, Gre

"Fair stood the wind for France."— Michael Drayton. I yield to no one in my love and admiration for Henry V. in his nobler aspects, but I am not writing his story now. He came to France, not as the debonair and joyous prince of our affections, but as a conqueror; came, he told the unhappy French, as the instrument of God, to punish them for their sins. The phrase may have sounded less mocking then than it does to-day. France knew all about the sins; she had suffered under them, almost to death;