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COMPANIONS IN CAPTIVITY.

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“I am sorry,” said I “to see the number of the unfortunate increasing.” “And we have taken too,” added he, “the king Kilinski.” “I have not the honour,” answered I, “of knowing that monarch.” He smiled maliciously, and went out. It seems that he entered my room on purpose to inform me of his triumph, as he had never come to see me since the examination.

In the afternoon I had the pleasure of recognizing in the voice of my neighbour that of my friend Mostowski.^[1] Since it was his lot to be in this miserable place, it was a consolation to me, as well as to him, to be so near neighbours. Wishing to acquaint him of my presence in the room next to his,

↑ Thaddeus Mostowski, at the time of the celebrated Diet of four years, (1788–91,) Castellan of Racionz, distinguished himself among the Polish patriots who attempted the political regeneration of their country. He was afterwards Minister of the Home Department in the Duchy of Warsaw, under Napoleon, and remained in the same office in the kingdom of Poland until the last revolution. From that time he retired to France, and died in Paris in 1842.

[1] Thaddeus Mostowski, at the time of the celebrated Diet of four years, (1788–91,) Castellan of Racionz, distinguished himself among the Polish patriots who attempted the political regeneration of their country. He was afterwards Minister of the Home Department in the Duchy of Warsaw, under Napoleon, and remained in the same office in the kingdom of Poland until the last revolution. From that time he retired to France, and died in Paris in 1842.

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