Men blamed Torrijos, little knowing his impediments.

Boyd was still patient at his post: others of the young English (on the strength of the subscribed moneys) were said to be thinking of tours,--perhaps in the Sierra Morena and neighboring Quixote regions.

From that Torrijos enterprise it did not seem that anything considerable would come.
On the edge of winter, here at home, Sterling was married: "at Christchurch, Marylebone, 2d November, 1830," say the records.

His blooming, kindly and true-hearted Wife had not much money, nor had he as yet any: but friends on both sides were bountiful and hopeful; had made up, for the young couple, the foundations of a modestly effective household; and in the future there lay more substantial prospects.

On the finance side Sterling never had anything to suffer.