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319Which thanks be to God, I have already done. The generous duty ofcharity and confraternity not only dictated it, but the personal obligationswhich I had to this young man who is a cousin of one of my former confreres,Mr.Duński (at the College Stanislaus) whose family I know. The family hasbeen made of my fraternal-paternal relations with him. Well, thanks to be God,the first goal of this trip has been accomplished. But the Lord has confined forthe moment to my care this lamb who has been snatched from the wolf’smouth, all that imposes on me the duty of finding for the lamb a shelter wherehis wounds can be healed. After I have rescued my young friend from themisfortune of sin we had to think of liberating him from the misfortune ofisolation.(MSS 8591, p. 1147, CRR)