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

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1855

pg 266       wished for the future to take charge of the establishment; that it 
             was therefore to its interest to communicate directly with Ste. 
             Croix and our duty to withdraw; and that Ste. Croix showed thereby 
             the importance it attached to this establishment.
                  Such was the end of the intervention of the Lake in New York.
             The Mother Superior returned, and it seemed as if calm ought now 
             to succeed the tempest, if, indeed, peace can ever dwell with the 
             poor children of Holy Cross.
                  Perhaps the people at Ste. Croix had become convinced that 
             the Lake had a great desire to establish itself in New Orleans and 
             New York.  But assuredly for some years past the advantages 
             presented by those two establishments were more than 
             counterbalanced by the quarrels in which the Lake was soon 
             involved with the Mother House in regard to the one and the other 
             of them.  In all candor the Lake had no desire of either place; 
             devotedness to the honor of the Congregation alone made it for the 
             last time overleap the bounds of its modest reserve.  It is today 
             so grieved and ashamed that with the grace of God it hopes never