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

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1859

pg 354       had at a time when the market was glutted, and the cook had 
             nothing to put on the table when the storeroom was full.
                  The same vertiginous spirit seemed to blind the members of 
             Notre Dame even beyond the ocean.  The Brother who was then 
             managing the affairs of the Province at the Mother House list 
             5000fr. in the printing of a series of books in English which were 
             left in the custom-house in New York; and all that he had 
             purchased in France he left after him in such an unaccountable 
             manner than a boy of twelve would have seen in it a crazy fit.  It 
             was a new loss of 2000fr., not to speak of seven or eight hundred 
             francs that were stolen from him in New York--from him, a former 
             sailor accustomed to travelling by sea and land.
                  One of the Fathers of the society who ought to have been most 
F. Kilroy    devoted to it, seeing that he had made all his studies in it, was 
leaves       this same year the instrument of whom God allowed the enemy to 
             make use in order to add to its trials.  Not only did he leave the