Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1841-1842

pg 8         were no longer indispensable, needed to be waited on himself, 
             which was cheerfully done.
                  This truly paternal watchfulness of Providence which was 
             experienced by them more than once, not only on occasions really 
             critical, but sometimes even in the ordinary details of life, 
             this solicitude full of tenderness, did not escape their notice; 
             perhaps it might be said that nothing contributed more to excite 
             in the depths of their souls that confidence and that unreserved 
             trust abandonment of themselves to this same Providence which 
             watched so attentively over them.
                  The sea had thus its pleasures for them as well as its 
             little annoyances; even when they were hardly able to stand or to 
             raise their heads, they did not altogether lose that gayity which 
             always accompanies a conscience at peace with itself.  It was 
             amusing to hear them ask one another, between the throes of the 
             those revolutions that were going on within them, whether they 
             still thought the world big enough to bear any proportion to  
             their courage.
                  Once on the open sea, the sickness left them, their strength 
             returned, and then came those days of joy which they will love to 
             recall till their dying day.