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443P.S. There is just one addition to what has been written above. How were we ableto rent a house and set up common housekeeping? Do not reveal it to him 446 , Godforbid! It would lead to the beginning of a quarrel (you would then be a part of it;on principle, for the cause, this would be for you a primary and most sacredobligation). What funds did we use? Simply, a good Catholic 447 rented the houseand provided for the purchase of household wares and furniture. However, theactual purchase, even of most necessary items, resulted in an increase of ourdebts. But, we do not lose confidence in God. We love one another. We put ourtrust in one another now, and for the future. We live in poverty, and we work. Wehave dedicated ourselves in God, mankind, fatherland, our people, forever. 448446 That is, to Leo Przecławski.447 Charles Montalembert contributed the sum for the yearly rental of a home.448 A rough-draft of this letter has been preserved in Jagellonian Library, (Cracow), Mss 9235/III,p.10.