The Happy Feint

There are plenty of women who think that reckless, provided they do not come to that with a lover, they can not afford to offend their husbands at least one trade of gallantry, and it often results from this way of seeing things as a result most dangerous if they fall would have been complete. What happened to the Marquise de Guissac, woman of Nimes in the Languedoc, is a sure proof of what we are asking here for maxim.

Mad, giddy, gay, witty and kind, she believed that some of Guissac gallant letters written and received between her and the Baron Aumelas, would lead to no result, first they would be ignored and if unfortunately they were to be discovered, can prove his innocence to her husband, she does not deserve his disgrace, she made a mistake ... Mr. de Guissac, overly jealous, suspects trade, he interrogates a maid, he is seized of a letter, there is not enough to justify first fears, but infinitely more than enough to feed suspicions. In this cruel state of uncertainty, he armed himself with a pistol and a glass of lemonade, as between a madman in his wife's room ...

- I'm betrayed, madam, "he shouted in fury, read this post: it enlightens me, there is no time to swing, I let you choose your death.

The marquee fights, she swears that her husband is wrong, it can be, indeed, guilty of recklessness, but it certainly is not any crime.

- You do not deceive me more treacherous, "replies the irate husband, you will not deceive me more, hurry to choose, or the weapon at the moment will deprive you of the day.

Poor Mrs. Guissac scared of is determined for the poison, take the cup and swallowed.

- Stop, "said her husband whenever she drank some, you shall not perish alone, hated by you, misled by you, what would you think I might be made to the world? and in saying this, he swallowed the rest of the chalice.

- Oh, sir, "exclaimed Madame de Guissac in terrible condition when you just cut one and one do not refuse me a confessor, and I can simultaneously embrace for the last time my father and mother.

We sent for on the spot the people demand this unfortunate woman, she throws herself into the bosom of those who have given birth again and protested that she is not guilty. But what do blame a husband who feels cheated and that does not punish his wife so cruelly that immolation itself? There is only despair, and tears also flowing from all sides.

However, the confessor is coming ...

- In this cruel moment of my life, "said the marchioness, I want for the consolation of my parents and to honor the memory of my making a public confession.

And at the same time she accuses aloud everything that consciousness reproached since she was born.

The attentive husband who does not understand about the Baron Aumelas, of course it is not at such a moment when his wife dares to use concealment, is recovering in overjoyed.

- O my dear parents, "cried he, embracing both his stepfather and his stepmother, console you and your daughter will forgive me fear that I made to her, she given enough concern for my being allowed to make him a little. There never was a poison that we took one and one that is quiet, let it all, and it retains at least one woman really honest not only do ought to do evil, but it should never even let him suspect.

The marquise had all the trouble to recover from his condition, she had believed to be poisoned so that the force of his imagination had already been felt all the agonies of such a death, it is trembling, she kisses her husband , joy replaces pain, and the young woman too addressed by this terrible scene, although it promises to avoid future until the slightest appearance of wrongdoing. She has kept his word and lived for over thirty years with her husband without it ever has had the slightest fault with him.