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230can, and it will be done as much as I will be able. I announced our doctrine t oall I came near to; I made several interested and some love it as much as theywere capable of doing so. And here a new member of our family calls me hisbrother in St. Simon.Brought t o maturity by the love of my fathers, on fire with religiousfeeling I am burning with the desire t o see you as soon as possible to increaseand increase in faith and in act, to love and to be more I loved.With respect to those who are around me, the desire of being the mostworthy possible of your paternal embrace doubles my strength and I will try torecognize how much they are worthy of being the elect and to make them moreand more worthy. If I see that someone among them is worthy of being anaffiliate, if someone among them requires that I prolong my stay a little more Iwill do so. If what I said just now turns out to be true and if I have to wait andwork a little longer to get results I would go to Paris at the beginning of nextweek perhaps with Bontemps (if he does not go before) after arranging here t oestablish regular correspondence with you in Paris. In any case as I am to seeyou soon I would like to ask you to try to provide lodging in a house wheresome others live for the time that I remain in Paris. Why do I so wish? yourpaternal heart does it not tellyou why?Bontemps told me that he wrote yesterday to our common MotherBazard and among other things he begged her to write a letter to Mrs. Willier.Our thoughts or rather our love came together in the conception of this projectbut we now think that it could be better done after our arrival, you will talkabout it to our dear mother.Since my last letter I have seen Mill several times; recently I went to hisplace with Bontemps. The fact is that his feelings of sympathy are not ardentenough and that he is dominated by some petty considerations and the moreone persuades him by reasoning about the truth of our beliefs the more he triesafter wards to retreat to the most absurd theories. But as he looks ardently for a