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431I have just moved from rue de la Surene, and now live at Place duPantheon. Once again God has forgiven the disorder in my accounts and helpedme to pacify the landlady; but I had all kinds of trouble!As for your lodgings, without further ado I will find you a place in theLatin Quarter, close to me. Tell Jerome to forget about his Hotel de la Providenceon rue Saint Honore 419 . For formalities sake, I ask you to send formal acceptanceof the room I will find for you after you have received this letter. I will try a cheaproom on a quiet street - two rooms with a connecting door, one of which would belarge enough to accomadate the few people you might want to meet with onoccasion 420Write to tell me positively on what day you will come. I have much to tellyou. Several weeks ago it was announced that The New Poland had uncoveredand was preparing to release to the emigrants information about the Society of theLamb of God 421 , whose president, naturally, is Adam Mickiewicz, with all of usas members, according to various categories: science, propaganda, philantrophy.Metternich 422 is supposed to be the hidden mover behind all this, andMontalembert the go-between. So far The New Poland has not published itsarticle; but Czyński has beat them to it. A few days ago he issued the last (again)number of Północ, in which he has an item about a Catholic Papal Congregation,founded at Chaillot by Bohdan Zaleski, Kajsiewicz and myself. Semenenko isrepresented as a zealous preacher. Especially astounding is the statement: ―Karskiand Ordęga, vigorous people, imbued with the latest 19 th century ideas, havefallen into the snare of mysticism, which should be incapable of seducing even oldladies today‖ 423 etc.419 B. Jański had just moved from beyond the Seine to the Latin Quartier. The rue Saint Honorewas on the other side of the Seine, about an hour’s walk away.420 . This was the name the leftist emigrant press contemptuously gave to Jański’s conciliatoryService of Country.421 For common spiritual reading, prayers and discussions422 Clement Metternich (l773-1859). Austrian statesman and political leader from the fall ofNapoleon to the Revolution of 1848; originator of the so-called ―holy alliance‖ of kings againstrevolutions and uprisings.423 A citation from the article entitled: ―A Catholic Papal Congregation‖, in Północ, Year 1:1835,nr.16.