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330Letter Nr. 56La Trappe, April 30, 1839My dear Mr. Goney,I have just learned with pain and real sorrow that you have decided totake extreme measures against me and that you have even summoned mebefore the Justice of the Peace intending to bring me to court then. I admit toyou that it is not so much the fear of the consequences of these rigorousmeasures that afflicts me as the circumstantes that the measures are taken byyou, sir, from whom for more than three years that we have been associates Ireceived only evidence of esteem and kindness and that these measures weretaken without your having had the obligingness even to […?].Since I met you the last time, it was I believe at the end of the month ofFebruary, and receiving no longer any demands from you for payment aspressing and urgent as before, I thought that sure of my good faith that youhave many times assured me of and taking into consideration the manner inwhich I previously paid you, I thought you would have decided to extend tome your patience and usual confidence of other times and without anydetriment to yourself and would have decided to give me all the time needed tosettle up. And on my side I have been and am awaiting all the funds sufficientto pay the account.I preferred to await the arrival of those funds than to offer you a littlemoney on account which could make you anxious rather than satisfying youand making you now a new complication in the matter arises from what myconfrere Mr. V[ictor] S[idorowicz] to suppose that the business would drag onfor a long time. That is why I appeared to you neglect you for the past twomonths and what no doubt so disappointed you. […?] as for what you declaredto the Justice of the Peace to have heard about Count Ladislaus Plater.