We got the start of them, and took up our station on the terrace of the banks of the river.

It was there that he witnessed the scandalous scenes which took place; and it would be difficult to describe the surprise and indignation which they excited in him.

When the King showed himself at the windows overlooking the garden, with the red cap, which one of the mob had put on his head, he could no longer repress his indignation.

"Che coglione!" he loudly exclaimed.

"Why have they let in all that rabble! They should sweep off four or five hundred of them with the cannon; the rest would then set off fast enough." When we sat down to dinner, which I paid for, as I generally did, for I was the richer of the two, he spoke of nothing but the scene we had witnessed.