"In  the  September  of  1870,  the  brethren  of  the
Juniorate  were  disbanded,  and  Father  Henry  was  sent
to  begin  his  philosophy  at  Stonyhurst.  Most  of  us  went
thither  at  the  same  time,  and  it  was  my  good  fortune
to  be  privileged,  during  the  year  that  followed,  to  main
tain  the  same  intimate  and  pleasant  relations  that  I  so
valued  at  Manresa.
"  The  study  of  philosophy  was  quite  new  to  all  of  us,
and  our  difficulties  were  not  lessened  by  the  fact  that
our  professor  was  a  German  who  could  not  speak  a
word  of  English.  Father  Henry  from  the  first  felt  the
work  extremely  uncongenial.  The  concepts  were  un
familiar,  the  terminology  scarcely  helpful  in  its  effort
to  be  terse,  and  the  way  of  looking  at  things  foreign  to
his  temperament.  Even  our  causeries  threw  but  little
light  on  the  subject,  and  we  found  it  impossible  to  have
them  so  often,  and,  on  the  whole,  it  was  always  my  feel
ing  that  this  was  one  of  the  most  trying  years  of  Father
Henry's  religious  life,  even  though  he  liked  Stonyhurst,
as  we  all  did,  and  was  much  attracted  by  the  work  of
the  great  college  hard  by.  Yet  he  gave  no  voluntary
sign  of  this.  He  was  cheerful  and  charitable  as  ever,
and  as  ready  to  humiliate  himself.  How  often  have  I
seen  him  at  Stonyhurst,  with  his  gown  tucked  up  and
kneeling  at  his  hearthstone,  which  he  whitened  with
the  utmost  care,  or  scrubbing  the  floor  of  that  room,
which  he  kept  in  such  a  state  of  mingled  poverty  and
neatness.
