28. К Валентину

I am sending you a third letter now, having not received a single one from your magnificence. That you received our letters with great joy, gave the person who handed them to you the honorable reception worthy of you, and did on your part everything that your strength was needed for - we know this, and all this is well known to us, but still we have not received any letters from you. If someone else, a less noble person, had remained silent for so long, we agree that he could have apologized in many ways. But since we know the sublimity of your soul, your ardent, sincere, genuine, firm and constant love for us, we will not accept such an apology from your honor. You can’t tell us that this time you won’t live there, because we know that too. The only thing that can sufficiently satisfy us for your long silence is if, in the future, you deign to make up for what was omitted in the past and begin to send us heaps of letters with mellifluous notifications about your health and well-being. Although we live in the desert, in a difficult state of siege, and are surrounded by thousands of dangers, despite all this, we do not cease to care about your honor and daily investigate how your affairs are going. So, although in order for us to learn this not from others, but from you yourself, whose disposition is so sweet and desirable to us, write to us constantly about your health. By receiving letters bringing us good news, we receive everything we want from you. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: