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

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1855

pg 263            According to the report of their directress, they did not 
             even preserve amongst themselves the appearances of charity.  
             Jealousy, indiscretion, levity, and especially the itching to talk 
             of the miseries of Ste. Croix, which they made contemptible, 
             especially in the person of the V. R. Father, whom they 
             represented as a man who wanted to do everything himself and who 
             embroiled whatever he meddled with, who could keep no one near his 
             person, and with whom it was enough to be intimate to be 
             dismissed from the Society.  (Amongst other things they spoke of 
             his temptation as a proof of mental aberration, in a very flippant 
             way, rather joking about the effects than grieving for the cause.)
             Such were the dispositions of those good women on their arrival 
             until F. Sorin, who had on the very first day warned them of their 
             thoughtlessness on the journey, from New York had put them all in 
             absolute silence for an indefinite period.
                  Cruel deception!  In his own serious financial embarrassments 
             he had hastened to the relief of the Mother House, and he saw all 
             his efforts turned to the destruction of all respect for the