Let our readers reassure themlves. If d''Artagnan fets his host, or appears to fet him, under the preten of not knowing where he has been carried, we will not fet him, and we know where he is. But for the moment, let us do as did the amorous Gas; we will e after the worthy merbsp;later.
D''Artagnan, refleg on his future amours, addressing himlf to the beautiful night, and smiling at the stars, asded the Rue Cherish-Midi, or Cha-Midi, as it was then called. As he found himlf in the quarter in whibsp;Aramis lived, he took it into his head to pay his friend a visit in order to explain the motives whibsp;had led him to nd Pla with a request that he would e instantly to the moutrap. Now, if Aramis had been at home when Pla came to his abode, he had doubtless hastened to the Rue des Fossoyeurs, and finding nobody there but his other two panions perhaps, they would not be able to ceive what all this meant. This mystery required an explanation; at least, so d''Artagnan declared to himlf.
He likewi thought this was an opportunity for talking about pretty little Mme. Bonacieux, of whom his head, if not his heart, was already full. We must never look for discretion in first love. First love is apanied by subsp;excessive joy that unless the joy be allowed to overflow, it will stifle you.
Paris for two hours past had been dark, and emed a dert. Eleven o''clobsp;sounded from all the clobsp;of the Faub St. Germain. It was delightful weather. D''Artagnan was passing along a lane on the spot where the Rue d''Assas is now situated, breathing the balmy emanations whibsp;were borne upon the wind from the Rue de Vaugirard, and whibsp;aro from the gardens refreshed by the dews of evening and the breeze of night. From a distanbsp;resounded, deadened, however, by good shutters, the songs of the tipplers, enjoying themlves in the cabarets scattered along the plain. Arrived at the end of the lane, d''Artagnan turned to the left. The hou in whibsp;Aramis dwelt was situated between the Rue Castte and the Rue Servandoni.