Aussi,—sous le prétexte qu’une leçon qui avait été déplacée tombait maintenant si mal qu’elle m’avait empêché plusieurs fois et m’empêcherait encore de voir mon oncle—un jour, autre que celui qui était réservé aux visites que nous lui faisions, profitant de ce que mes parents avaient déjeuné de bonne heure, je sortis et au lieu d’aller regarder la colonne d’affiches, pour quoi on me laissait aller seul, je courus jusqu’à lui. →
And so--on the pretext that some lesson, the hour of which had been altered, now came at such an awkward time that it had already more than once prevented me, and would continue to prevent me, from seeing my uncle--one day, not one of the days which he set apart for our visits, I took advantage of the fact that my parents had had luncheon earlier than usual; I slipped out and, instead of going to read the playbills on their column, for which purpose I was allowed to go out unaccompanied, I ran all the way to his house.