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

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1859

pg 385            Immediately after this the Rev. F. Sorin prepared to recall 
             all the members of the two communities:  two priests, ten 
             Brothers, and nineteen Sisters.  There remained only ten days more 
             to move, dispose of all the furniture, pay the debts, and collect 
             what was due, not to speak of a store of Catholic books which the 
             Sisters had opened in their Industrial House at the request of 
             Mgr. O'Regan, and which left them now with a capital of four 
             thousand dollars on their hands, with which they did not know what 
             to do.
                  It was adding great embarrassments and considerable losses to 
             the disgrace of such a retreat, which the fear of scandal hindered 
             them from even explaining to any one.  But without the protection 
             of the law, which was to be invoked against them, there was no way 
             of holding out longer.  It seemed better to them to sacrifice 
             everything to the fear of a scandalous suit, leaving it to the 
             Superior General to judge whether it would be expedient to follow 
             up the matter, or to let it be gradually forgotten.