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331Now a new complication in our affair arises from what Mr. VictorSidorowicz tells me; in my name he answered the Justice of the Peace and thatyou declared you heard from Count Ladislaus Plater.I can really take the words of Plater such as they were reported to me byyourself only as a […?] which he wanted to make before you, which I don’twant to qualify, for I don’t want to consider them seriously as an insult. I couldnot believe that he wanted seriously to set himself up truly with having theridiculous importance of being the head of such a poor establishment as ours,something where there is nothing. The fact that Mr. Ladislaus was kind enoughto insinuate that I was only creating a shelter for someone he knows full welldoes not yet exist.The fact is that under the address of and the name of Mr. LadislausPlater I received for a year and half a little fund destined for me and even atpresent it is possible to believe (I have every reason to believe) that likewisethat a good little sum has arrived for me but despite the attitude and friendshipeagerly shown me all these times by Mr. Plater I have always experienced andwould expose myself to so many annoyances, delays, and real difficulties inreturn for these funds. About the sum recently arrived I am sure of beingexpected to and I have reasons to pay my debts that I have decided to write tothe person who sends them to send by another way so that merely financialrelations existing between Mr. Plater and me are going to cease from now on.That is the whole truth about Count Ladislaus Plater. Moreover, hecould […?] the amounts that he mentioned to you about money for my house[…?] there is really nothing more there to discover.(I would be very happy if he paid our account in whole or in part, forthat would clear me with you without obliging me in any way to him).(Moreover) But at last, my dear Mr. Goney, (you would be better off toaccept) since you so decidedly lack patience. (That is) what we had best do ina case like this, and above all if you consider the perfect agreement whichexisted up to now between us in all our accounts and relations. (We can)