caressing him, and expressing her delight in a variety of wild exclamations and gestures. The embarrassment
of the polite Gauls at such an unlooked-for occurrence may be easily imagined, but picture their consternation,
when all at once the royal lady, eager to display the hieroglyphics on her own sweet form, bent forward
for a moment, and turning sharply round, threw up the skirt of her mantle and revealed a sight from
which the aghast Frenchmen retreated precipitately, and tumbling into their boats, fled the scene of so
shocking a catastrophe.