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Show Gen. Bonaparte, then lodging ut Rue Chantereine, had come to have ft talk with me about the preparations for the eventful day. I was then living in Rue Taitbout, ill a house which has since become be-come No. 2-1, I believe. It stood at the back of a courtyard, and running from the first floor there wero galleries which led to wings looking on the street. My drawing room was lighted with several candles. It was 1 o'clock in the morning, morn-ing, and we were in the middle of a very animated conversation when we heard a great noise in the street. To the rumbling rum-bling of carriages was added the galloj)-ing galloj)-ing of nn escort of cavulry. Suddenly the carriages stopped right Ik? fore the door of my house. The general gen-eral turned pale, and I quite believe I did the same. Tho idea struck ns both at the same timo that they wero coming to arrest us by order of the directory. I blowout tho candles and crept stealthily along the gallery to one of the outside wings, from which I could see What was going on in tho street. For some timo 1 was at a loss to make anything out of tho tumult, but at last I discovered the somewhat grotesque cause. At this epoch, tho l'uris streets being very unsafe at night, when the gambling j houses clpsed at tho Palais Royal all the money that had been used for the bank was collected and placed in cabs, and the banker had been allowed by the police to have his cabs escorted by gendarmes, at his expense, to bis homo in the Rue do Clichy, or thereabout. That night one of tho cabs had broken down just in front of my bouse, and that was the reason of tho ht, which lasted for alxmt a quarter of an hour. We had a hearty laugh, the general and I, over onr panic very natural though it was when wo knew, as we did, tho tendencies of the directory and the extreme measures it1 was capable of taking. Talleyrand's Memoirs in Century. Itotmpiirle Tiir-iia Pale. j A few nights before the lth Drumsire ' a little scene was enacted at my house 1 which would be void of interest but I for the ch'cuuist-nci.'s. |