Napoleon sez it was a 'Beau geste' which I thought meant a fine joke, and I was afraid the bird was wise, but Rathbone sez no, that it meant a swell action; and the widow sez, over and over again, 'Ces braves Americainsces braves Americains!'

Léonie sortent en faisant des gestes à de Grignon.) SCÈNE IX MONTRICHARD, DE GRIGNON.

I know not if you have heard tell the marvellous gestes and errant deeds related so often of King Arthur.

" Anacreon, a glass, a gown, a chain, anything, "Sed speculum ego ipse fiam, Ut me tuum usque cernas, Et vestis ipse fiam, Ut me tuum usque gestes.