The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-03
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THE MISTAKE OF A NIGHT-AN INCIDENT
OF LIFE IN PARIS.

TIE MISTAKE OF NIGHT-AE INCIDENT
OF LIFE IN PARIS.
A special correspondent of theNew Orleans
Picyaune, writing from Paris in November
last, relates the following amusing occurrence,
which he says is strictly true:
a wealthy family here have their country
seat about hundred miles south of Bordeaux,
where they usually pass away five months of
| the year, the period between April and Octo-
Der. All their servants follow them thither.
The porter of the house in which they reside
lit belongs to them, but they only occupy
the first floor, the rest is let-keeps the keys
of their suite of rooms, and has orders to air
the rooms every fine day, and tohave the chin
neys swept the first week in September. The
husband remained in Paris a month longer
than the lady, he said that he might see the
exhibition, but after that month had expired
he seemed to have been bitten by tarantula
for he could not keep quiet at his estate a day,
but was continually running up to Paris or
Bordeaux, or somewhere else.
His wife became suspicious; at last she de-
Itermined to come to Paris Unexpectedly, and
see if he had not come to the capital, although
he said when they parted that he was going
Ito Nantes 1t was late at night when she
reached her house; light was streaming from
Iher drawing room and bed-chamber! Listen
ing to nothing but her passions, she ran past
the Porter's lodge, and in momen (for she,
too, had key to their suite of rooms) she was
lin her apartment. The dining table was COW
cred with the remains Of a dainty supper; and
the delicately tapered bottles vouched that
no ordinary wine had lubricated the late re-
past. Her boudoir was covered with ladies,
dresses. Her shame and her husbands guilt
were but too apparent She burst into the
bed chamber. The light had BEEN extinguish-
ed while she was mounting the staircase and
examining the dining room and boudoir-
"Come my dear fellow, come to bed at once;
| have been expecting you above haitian hour
said woman, while cropping for the matches.
They were soon found, and the candle light
| ed; the wife found woman in her own bed!
| I"Who are you? exclaimed the latter at the
lsight Of this fury, Thisbe in Catarina's cham
Der; and she pulled the bell with might and
main. ''Who am T. abandoned wretch that
| you are am the mistress of this house; the
wife of him who calls you mistress" "Oh,
| Heavens! the woman is crazy" shrieked the
tenant of the, bed, trying to arrange as best
she might the pillows of the bed into breast
work, capable of resisting the charge which
Ievidently was impending. The wife had, how
ever, by this time lost her anger in surprise,
as the candle showed the lady in her bed was
above sixty years old, wrinkled and gray.
''What's the matter, mother?" exclaimed a
beautiful girl of twenty, who suddenly appear
ed, scarcely attired in piegnon hastily thrown
i over her shoulders. amelia, where is your
father? That crazy woman has burst in here
and insulted me grossly. Run for your father;
call everybody"
But the tone and attitude of the wife had
changed; she began to understand that this
was no tragedy, but comedy Of errors.
MADAME" said she, ''don't be so much alarm
ed. am not an escaped boarder from lunatc
asylum Allow me to sit down in my own
house." added she, glancing around the room
and recognizing her furniture. Let us ex-
plain our positions"
They entered into explanations. The lady
| in bed was the Countess do, who, had
come to Paris to see the Exhibition. Desir-
| ing an apartment more comfortable and less
noisy than those of an hotel, an agency had
given them their present quarters The por-
ter let it out! He had rented it for $50 3
month to strangers in quest Of Quiet and com
fort Excuses were ..aae on both sides. ~ m
next oav -.le porter was a. aalcKed out of hi
= -yuge and as .4e Countess and the wife founc
lthCCy mad a great many common friends. tn
, latter engaged the former to remain her guest
during their stay in Paris. The husband ha'
gone to Nantes to purchase, as it afterward
, turned out, a neighboring piece of property
/; which his wife was anxious he should &C
quire