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

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1861

pg 439       full to Notre Dame, with all the notes and papers that he held in 
             his possession against the house of the Lake.  The Rev. F. Reze 
             himself went security for the keeping of this promise.
                  F. Sorin, who, on the word and the writing of his actual 
             superior behind Brother Amedee to be capable of ruining the 
             institute, and who had no ulterior purpose but, if necessary, to 
             bring the matter to the knowledge of Rome, preferred, for the sake 
             of peace, to sacrifice the 1200fr., and what cost him far more, 
             the feeling of honor and justice which he was obliged to lay aside 
             before any injustice and provocation that went beyond all bounds.  
             But what can a victim do who is attacked on the high road by an 
             assassin who holds the knife to his throat?  He sent the Brother, 
             therefore, not expecting very strongly that a man capable of 
             writing such threats and of convincing his superior that he would 
             put them in execution, would keep even promises attached by this 
             same superior.