This evening, especially, Aramis was melancholy and thoughtful. d’Artagnan asked some questions about this prolonged melancholy. Aramis pleaded as his excuse a commentary upon the eighteenth chapter of St. Augustine, which he was forced to write in Latin for the following week, and which preoccupied him a good deal.
D'Artagnan faggatni kezdte, mért olyan mélabús; Aramis bocsánatot kért, s azt mondta, a jövő héten latin nyelvű szövegmagyarázatot kell írnia Szent Ágoston XVIII. fejezetéhez, ez foglalja le minden gondolatát.