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Robak interrupted him. "As for the tobacco-hm-it comes from

farther off than my friend Skoluba thinks; it comes from Jasna

Gora, the Bright Mountain; the Paulist Brethren prepare such

tobacco in the city of Czenstochowa,76 where stands the image,

famed for so many miracles, of Our Lady the Virgin, Queen of the

Crown of Poland: she is likewise still called Duchess of

Lithuania! She still watches over her royal crown, but in the

Duchy of Lithuania the schism77 is now established!"

"From Czenstochowa?" said Wilbik. "I confessed myself there when

I went on a pilgrimage thirty years ago. Is it true that the

French are now visiting the city, and that they are going to tear

down the church and seize the treasury-for this is all printed in

the Lithuanian Courier?"