Chapter 86
WHICH WILL ELUCIDATE THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER. The evening before M. de Monsoreau had returned to his home from the H*** Guise, and had found Bussy there. Then, in his friendship for this brave gentleman, he had taken him aside, and said: "Will you permit me to give you a piece of advice?" "Pray do." "If I were you, I should leave Paris to-morrow." "I! and why so?" "All that I can tell you is, that your absence may save you from great embarrassment." "How so?" "Are you ignorant of what is to take place to-morrow?" "Completely." "On your honor?" "On my word as a gentleman." "M. d'Anjou has confided nothing to you?" "Nothing; M. d'Anjou confides nothing to me beyond what all the world knows." "Well! I, who am not the Duc d'Anjou, who love my friends for their own sakes, and not for
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