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305Letter Nr. 43[To Charles Montalembert]Paris, July, 1837Praised be Jesus Christ!Now and forever. Amen. 218Your former master of Polish is arrogating himself the right to greetyou with a eminently Polish salutation even at the risk of embarassing you, isthat not a gramatical sense of those few words?Thank you our very dear Count, thanks with all my heart for the letteryou were enough to write me on June 23rd. Immediately after receiving it Iwent to Mr. Caesar’s and as it appeared to me that he had expedited on the daybefore the letter, and all that there was to be sent for you. There only remainsfor me to reserve the right to give evidence on the first occasion of my thanksfor having thought of me in your anxiety which the long silence of your lazycorrespondent caused. Now I am profiting from it obliged as I am to write youto protest against the pitiless decision of Mr. Caesar on my inability to do theprinting of the papers arriving here for you. so I can accomplish thiscommission, your confidence being charitably accorded me there is scarcelyrequired anything on my part but good will. I am capable of it, very capable,and I beg you to entrust it to me if thatt is your pleasure.I also have another reason for writing you and it again is a request.Father Dłuski (former pastor of Nowogródek, the native country ofMickiewicz) who was been living for a few months in our house wants to go toBelgium to a convent of the order of St. Francis and to that end he wants to go218 Original in Polish: ―Niech będzie pochwalony Jezus Chrystus. – Na wieki wieków. Amen.‖