The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-04-05
VOL. g..
% he Bulletin.
HYAClNTHE At HOME.
4 Model Of Happiness Presided over
W ~ Devoted WIfe-1f 10y sOn In net
Prophet philosopher. Poet or RE-
former, tse IL Ru Orator.

| sLTttt 10 Il UcW Otlt. IL u one Oh tlIDst
for which room has been made on one
side OF the town by the destruction of the
celebrated ramparts, and it is one to
which the pedantic Genevese have given
the name OF the Rue DIES Nrands Philos.
ophes. Though the philosophers were
great, the houses here are small, and This
one, with its clustering Nirginian
creeper. has modest look. The door OF
the premier is opened by the little maid
who answers the MADAM receives" and
! as you enter the Sdtoa a tall handsome
woman holds out her hand to you
| with peculiarly pleasant welcome.
Yen have come TO see the Pere IIya-
cinthe!'' she asks. You answer, "Yes -
aud az you answer you are aware that
| you scan your hostess closely. You can
not help doing so, for her position ia so
unique. and she seems to fulfill its re-
qulrements. She is now in middle
life, but she has great energy and hope
tulness, and her figure and attitudes are
curiously typical Of the change which
she has introduced into the household Of
a man holding the orders Of the Latin
church; she looks essentially a woman
and mother.
In the meantime she had been listening
10 what you have to say of your errand.
The pere Will be 80 glad, o, SO glad, 10
see you is her answer. "Let me tell
him that you are here and she dis
appears.
Now the door behind you opens and
it admit. Pere Hyacinthe. The light
strikes on his eyes a. he enters. Tney
are weak, so he drops them. They are
iear-sixhtcd, and he does not therefore
move straight up 10 you; he stoops and
walks still d. if his loose, incoyenient
i-ock were in his way: aud from all these
tribe you feel "a painful want OF frank
ness in his manner. But the manner
Is simple, not unctuous and not discur-
sive. You allude TO the deanery of
Westminster, where your last meeting
took place, and instantly the heavy pre-
Occupied face light ms.
After ten minutes conversation Pere
HyacInthe Loyson says: But you have
hot yet seen the household OF Catholic
priests; and he suggests 10 ''sa chers
Emii.e' that she should 90 tor their son.
The boy is beautiful. He mas the clus.
tering curls, the great eyes, the sweet
mouth and the rapt seriousness OF the
cherub in the Madonna del san Sisto.
He is also quiet and obedient. and so sub
sides into play near the window while
the talk goes on.
The Pere HyaciDthe does not speak i'll
OF any one. He knows that Louis
Neuillot holds him up to the reprobalion
of ciirisisndOD as "EiH 6,UtSs' but such
hard words do not affect him. OF him
self he does not willingly speak much.
Once he does so. with a halt-ironical
shrug OF the shoulders. 81 know very
little he says, nothing but little
Ihtnsi9}elogy, in~eAe aedfp wbh a6dHd
TO say that knowthdtvery Ill. Certainly
the Pere Hyacinthe is not learned man,
he /. not well-iniormed man and need
less to say that he is not man OF the
world. He could not be, for be has been
a seminarist. priest, monk and re-
cluse. The son Of professor at Orleans,
the bl Oh that flows IN his veins
comes from Breton source. Hence the
distinctly Celtic. turn OF his genius.
Atone time, when he had just resigned
his post as ciUs de GsRere. he appeared
to be disheartened, and 10 regret his &c.
centric career must imperil the happi-
ness OF a woman and the future OF
child. Those of his friends condoled
with him who had always thought this
marriage proof of wealkess. blot upon
a career intended tor nobl, issues. lie
himself always speaks OF his marriage "a
a protest against the unnatural loneliness
or the lax morality oil a celibate clergy
Those who know him best believe that
his union has been fortunate thing tor
him. He is near-sighted: ne
is more than a little deaf; he
works slowly, and he car write and speak
i'm no language but his own. His wife Is
his secretary. She is the medium Tor the
holy wrath OF Strossmayer, for the plans
of Reinkens, for the optimism OF Stanley,
tor the Anglo-Catholicism o! Liddon, for
the sensibihties of English ladies, and
tor the sympathies OF Dutch Jansenists.
In a word, she facilitates his intercourse
with the hundreds OF men, women ana
/ priests. who apply to the Pere Hyacin-
the and consider him as guide in their
search after Ia DtetlleUre deS egttses.
The study of the pere is open, and he
invites you TO visit il. \ large cruclnX
hangs on the wall, aud there, too. is the
knotted discipline which is used when
he was Carmeite friar. The desk, the
floor, perhaps, also the bed, are Uttered
with books. There area few new and
recent works, pamphlets Of Lavelaye,
and Italian and American newspapers
hastily cut but of Bossuet and Rosmni,
what numbers of well-thumbed volumes,
From their pages the Pere Hyacinthe is
seeking 10 compile catechism which
shall be Catholic, but not Tridentine. In
speaking he grows animated
The pale, heavy, near-sighted face
loses its heaviness. The mouth, the
pronunciation, the dictlon, all are
| beautiful. This man is born an orator.
| His very lips seem to be meant for elo-
quent speech. After an hour you leave
the house OF the married priest convinc
ed that if neither prophet, nor philoso'
pher, nor poet. nor perhaps retormer,
| Loyson is born Orator-the honest
spokesman Of that great need Tor liberty
and truth to which he has given most
persuasive voice. When eXiled from
France, he found in Geneva not uncon.
genial home. The position was central
one for him, and he is very sensible O.
the kindness he has met with among the
Swiss. But his heart Is In France, an {
| as he has many influential friends Their
his prospects are Frightening. lie is al
owed this winter to lecture in Paris. AM
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