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

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1853

pg 175       of the office.  Yet this was the great reproach of Sainte Croix, 
             that Father Sorin had opposed the arrangements of the Rector.  
             This was trying to shift the question and thus to put to one side 
             the best-founded remonstrances of three men, who all of the 
             members of the Association were perhaps most unequivocally 
             devoted, one word from whom ought in justice to have been enough 
             to silence the complaints of a brainless and ambitious man.
                  Here, however, the patience of the Lake came to an end.  When 
             it was clearly proved that Sainte Croix had no confidence in those 
             that had given proofs of fidelity for many years, it became 
             evident that Notre Dame du Lac had no longer anything to expect 
             from Sainte Croix, and that rather than it would be sacrificed 
             with all its future to the caprice of the Mother House, which 
             moreover had never sought to administer it, but rather to keep it 
             in perpetual agitation.
                  In the painful circumstances in which the Lake was placed, 
             which was asked to sacrifice the founder without showing one that 
             could take his place, to insist on restoring [rapproches] a man 
             who was considered, apparently with reason, his most mortal enemy,