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

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1862

pg 464       setting them at cross purposes as to the means of reaching the end 
             which they all had in view.
                  The Mother House appeared to her elder daughter to 
             misconstrue entirely her real sentiments, and vice-versa; and 
             soon, on the one side and on the other, everything was interpreted 
             in the worst sense, matters being carried so far that religious, 
             who still loved and esteemed one another, began to spy each 
             other's actions like veritable enemies.  There is no doubt that 
             all this trouble was the devil's work.
                  A Visitor was sent from France.  Instead of the favorable 
             results that everybody looked for from this Visit, through some 
             mystery not to be explained unless by the wiles of the evil 
             spirit, none of those hopes was realized, and a series of troubles 
             that had not even been suspected began one after the other to 
             arise, in a manner equally surprising and afflicting.  Neither 
             party had foreseen the lamentable consequences of the first 
             disagreements, which were in themselves slight and of little