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332conclude a friendly arrangement which moreover, even without this summonsI was intending to propose to you; some recent small payments permit me todo this. However, it is quite simple (that for this arrangement) I can onlypropose with my present financial news (but) although I repeat and solemnlydeclare that in a short time I am counting on having the money which(disregarding the conditions fixed for the money) .(Be assured, that if I could get the sum, I would hasten).(I would not have asked that he pay you in whole or in part, for thatwould discharge my debt towards you without responsibility for my debts orany obligation. It would be impossible for you to take the amount hementioned to you that he says was forwarded to him for my house. If that is hisposition it is very simple; he can bring up to you twice as many difficultiesthan to me so I can’t have it myself in spite of such pressing needs and in spiteof the fact that the amount sent to be handed over to me and in spite of the factthat I am spurned to the point of being forced to wait for new dispositions ofthe proof from the one who sent the money, it is quite simple, I tell you, thatyou) […].And after that, until there can be greater payments, I suggest that youaccept 50 francs to be paid on the first of every month; thus, the first paymentwhich begins in May will consist of 100 francs. This is my proposal to you,Sir, with all good will which, on my part, has never been lacking.If you should so decide, my confrere, Mr. Sidorowicz, who has alreadybeen delegated by me to handle this affairs, will sign this agreement in myname or, at the time of my own arrival, we can settle this matter. I leave this toyour decision.I do not intend to bother other people with this matter because there isneither time nor the possibility to do so in the place where I find myself.Nevertheless, this letter can serve, if you consider it necessary, as adocument of our agreement which I have begun. It can also replace that whichI would have said before the Justice of the Peace.