Young people hailed it tumultuously and cherished it tenderly.

There were four editions in three volumes in the year of publication.

What was thought of the book by the Bible Society I do not know.

Perhaps 'he of the countenance of a lion,' of whom we read in the forty-fifth chapter of _Lavengro_, scarcely knew what to say about it; but the precise-looking man with the ill-natured countenance, no doubt, forbade his family to read _The Bible in Spain_.
In 1840 Borrow married the widow of a naval officer and settled in Norfolk, where his aged mother was still living.

His house was in Oulton Broad; and here he became a notable, the hero of many stories, and the friend of man, provided he was neither literary nor genteel.