A Heroine of France, The Story of Joan of Arc by Evelyn Everett-Green

This nobleman, whose name wasAbomelique, but generally called Blue Beard, on account of his beardbeing of that color, being determined to see her, under a pretence ofbusiness paid the father of Fatima a visit.

Irenewas a very pretty girl, but Fatima was beauty itself and so very goodbesides, that every body loved her: you may see her introduced to agentleman, to whom she was going to be married, her father havinggiven his consent, had not the fame of her beauty reached the ears ofa very great man, I should have said tyrant, for he was a very cruelover-bearing nobleman, and had been married to several ladies, of whomnobody knew what was become: but as he was very rich, and lived in agrand castle, of which I here present you with the drawing he some howor other, was never long without a wife. Once upon a time there lived, a great way off, an old man who had twodaughters, the name of the eldest was Fatima, the youngest Irene.

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A Heroine of France, The Story of Joan of Arc by Evelyn Everett-Green