Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781230080000

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...if you go to the Place of the Madeleine, behind the church, on the left, you will see it.' 'I know enough, ' replied the lady, and departed. "On returning home, she found her husband counting money with a man employed at the Russian Embassy. She told them what Alexis had said: and they laughed heartily and joked her on her credulity. However, the man knowing the addresses of many of the Russians in Paris, offered his assistance in tracing out the gentleman. "When they reached the Russian Embassy, they learnt that an aide de camp of the-Emperor--the Count B, was in Paris, and living at No.35, Rue de la Madeleine. They went there and observed that the house was exactly opposite the Rue Chaveau-Lagarde, which opens upon the Place de la Madeleine. They now began to think more seriously of what Alexis had said.. " The money-changer went up the stairs. But, oh what a deception! he did not recognize the gentleman whom he saw as the person for whom he was so anxiously looking, when Count B said to him, 'But I know you: you are the money-changer that I was with this morning.' Then, going up close to the money-changer and smiling, he took off his head an enormous chamber wig, such as many Russians wear. " The monev-changer was petrified on finding himself 'face to face witli his debtor. The matter was soon explained; and, as the noble foreigner had not yet touched the money, they counted it over together. There were actually 400 francs too much, and these were immediately returned to the moneychanger/'--La Patric, March 21, 1852. " Madame V., living at No. 62, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, went last Wednesday in great distress to M. Marcillet, begging for an immediate consultation...