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

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1861

pg 435       examined according to custom, and he himself set off in the middle 
             of the night, without handing in any accounts or leaving any 
             statement or memorandum of what he was taking with him.
                  He was a man of a fickle, sombre, mysterious character, whose 
             ways were secret and erratic, having the zeal of a Pharisee in 
             regard to others but with a way of his own of understanding 
             poverty and obedience as applied to himself; he was eager for news
             and confidences or meddling gossip; he had achieved perfection in 
             making all those that came in contact with him unhappy, whilst 
             sowed discord broadcast in a word, he had the talent to make 
             himself detested and almost insupportable to all in the house.
                  When the Very Reverend Father came to make his visit in 1857, 
             he could not see clearly through his books: the three years that 
             followed left the same veil over his operations.  Mystery was his 
             element.  When F. Sorin went to St. Laurent in the month of 
             October following, the Brother handed him, unsolicited and without