SKETCH OF A MODERN DISCIPLE OF 

 LOYOLA (BORN IN 1491). 



It has been, it seems my destiny (ANArKII')* as 

 Yictor Hugo has it, that from my cradle to my grave 

 I have been predestined more or less to come in con- 

 tact with some disciples of my inspirer of these 

 sketches : " St. Ignatius of Loyola," the founder of 

 the " Jesuits Order," canonized by the Pope Gregory 

 the X V. y and later suppressed by the Pope Clement 

 the XIV. in 1773, still "floruit " in 1892 ! ! 



Bad institutions are as noxious weeds hard to de- 

 stroy. In consequence thereof, we must do the best 

 we can, if we cannot totally eradicate the evil, to keep 

 off from it, that which in my particular case, is what I 

 have not always done, to my bitter shame, and I hum- 

 bly confess it, and beg absolution for it rather late ! 

 true, but to excuse me if I fall back on the English prov- 

 erb " Better late than never." Perhaps that procras- 

 tination to avoid bad company has been beneficial to 

 my morality if to nothing else. 



* English, Ananke Destiny, fatality, force, compulsion, etc. 



