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

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1841-1842

pg 13        poor: I thought the place was unbecoming your character: today I 
             feel with you that you did well to remain there: you were right.
                  Finally, the voyage was nearing its end; the land of America
             so fervently desired began to appear in the distance, and then it 
             was that our young missionaries could judge of the happy results 
             of their correct deportment and of their little donations, both 
             amongst the passengers in the cabin and those in the steerage, by 
             the affectionate manner in which everyone bade them good-bye with 
             thanks and wishes of happiness in the New World.  Strangers might 
             have mistaken those poor religious for veritable benefactors of 
             all the passengers.  Many begged to be remembered in their 
             prayers, and all promised never to forget them.  Even the 
             comedians came to assure them of their esteem and their good 
             wishes.  Such is the power and efficacy of virtue that wherever 
             it appears genuine and unpretentious, it soon wins all hearts.