text:  Tell us ye gods whence did her imperial highness derive the idea of her bonnet? Truly we can conjecture no other source than these very words designating her rank for the bonnet was imperial--none but such a lady would have dared to originate it; and it was also high--high indeed! The crown rose eighteen inches in perpendicular altitude from the nape of the neck while the front poke retained the modest dimensions of the original gipsy hat