EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE ON THE FRENCH BOULEVARDS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2028, 5 July 1875, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE ON THE FRENCH BOULEVARDS.

In a club on the Boulevards, which it would hardly be fair to name, a very good anecdote, says the Paris correspondent of N the Globe, is being told of the Mi-Careme. • On that day the Baron deß——, who has but lately become a Benedict, > accepted an invitation to a bachelors' supper at a-fashionable restaurant, and-after bidding his lady gbbd-bye at the door of her room; as' she did not care to sit up for him, he started off to keep his engagement. When the supper was over one of the gentlemen remembered < that the last ball r was; being--'given at the Opera Comique, and proposed ;that they should all go.^TEe proposiifion'- "was accepted, but not without hesitation on the part of. the baron.. When once at tbe ball the excitement::of the festivities and revels dissipated all the scruples of :M. de B— —, who with his friends, had- soon collected round them '^a - gay party ■of dominoes. The domiiio rose, who foe the - moment,had.engrossed the.attentions ofthe baron, dropped her fan. He gallantly stooped to pick it up, and was offering it to the lady, when the frou-frou. of a domino- Mane passing ■ him, attracted • his attention.''; He turned,, and to his horror beheld the domino he had authorised, his wife, to order for the grand ball masque at M. Arsene, Houssaye's. The Baron de B —- could swear to the costume -and the antique, lace he himself had bought for the dress Of his wife, whom he had seen retiring for the night before leaving home. Horror of horrors, the domino-hlanc was leaning nonchalantly on. tho arm of a gontleman. To make certain, the baroh passed the domino, and placed himself so that ihc couple must pass close, to him ; en they came, arm in arm, chatting; but the lady raised her eyes, caught. sight of.the; Baron, started, like a guilty thing, and turned and fled. M. de B——,'who tells

the story himself, says that he cannot • describe what passed in his mind as he hurried like a maniac after the "domino. The words of Dumas,

Jun., " lue la," sounded in liis - ears; but'at last lie came up to the lady, | who cowered, down on a seat in the courloir unable to utter a word, extending her handß'sas^if bogging for mercy. • Gripping heronsb with one hand, with the other he tore off the hup which concealed | her face, beheld to his astonishment the features-of his wife's lady's maid,. who had put on the costume of her mistress, . and come out for a night's enjoyment f while the latter was supposed to be tranquilly ..sleeping in her bed. The Baron was pufczlted. what to do. He could not dismiss thft femme de chanibre without telling his wife' the whole affair; and saying where .and how he met her ; so after warning her not to repeat such an offence, he ordered her home instantly, and he has- since amused his friends with the narrative of\ his piquant adventure, and its trasc, or rather dramatic denoue* merit. . , . .■:/,■ ..... . "