[The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of John Sterling CHAPTER XIII 2/6
The fact lay round him haggard and iron-bound; flatly refusing to be handled according to his scheme of it.
No Spanish soldiery nor citizenry showed the least disposition to join him; on the contrary the official Spaniards of that coast seemed to have the watchfulest eye on all his movements, nay it was conjectured they had spies in Gibraltar who gathered his very intentions and betrayed them.
This small project of attack, and then that other, proved futile, or was abandoned before the attempt.
Torrijos had to lie painfully within the lines of Gibraltar,--his poor followers reduced to extremity of impatience and distress; the British Governor too, though not unfriendly to him, obliged to frown.
As for the young Cantabs, they, as was said, had wandered a little over the South border of romantic Spain; had perhaps seen Seville, Cadiz, with picturesque views, since not with belligerent ones; and their money being done, had now returned home.
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