His relatives at Barcelona, merchants quick to understand and appraise a fortune, added up what the notary and his wife had left him and put with that what Labarta and the doctor had contributed, until it amounted to a million pesetas....

And was a man with as much money as that to go on living like a poor captain dependent upon wages to maintain his family!...
His cousin, Joaquin Blanes, proprietor of a factory for knit goods, urged him repeatedly to follow his example.

He ought to remain on shore and invest his capital in Catalan industry.

Ulysses belonged to this country both on his mother's side and because he was born in the neighboring land of Valencia.

There was great need of men of fortune and energy to take part in the government.