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My only wish, gentlemen, is that you should be only one, in heart and soul, to complete so great a task.

As I receive at your hands the first insignia of so great an honour, I could be tempted, being the man I am, to feel some vain self-satisfaction. But embarrassment would quickly follow this moment of error, since nothing in these honours is due to me personally and all they contain, on the contrary, only highlights my own weakness.

My dear Children, you are thus going to leave for good for your distant and sacred destination. I have but one regret and that is not to accompany you to the ship that will take you, to give you my final blessing and wish you my final greetings.

Children are sold there by auction, and I would if I could remove them from this bad treatment and perhaps from death, by bringing them up in Algeria and then returning them to their own countries with our missionaries – the Society is already in existence.