109).
10. _Vide_ Letter of Captain Burton to Sir Henry Elliot, July 14,
1871 (Blue Book, pp. 95, 96).
11. Letter from Captain Burton to the Rev. E. B. Frankel, Rev. J. Orr
Scott, Miss James, Rev. W. Wright, and Rev. John Crawford, Bludan,
July 19, 1871 (Blue Book, p. 92).
12. Miss Stisted's Life of Burton, p.364.
CHAPTER XIX. THE PASSING OF THE CLOUD. (1871-1872).
Tell whoso hath sorrow
Grief shall never last:
E'en as joy hath no morrow,
So woe shall go past.
ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH
(Burton's "Arabian Nights").
The recall from Damascus was the hardest blow that ever befell the
Burtons. They felt it acutely; and when time had softened the shock, a
lasting sense of the injury that had been done to them remained. Isabel
felt it perhaps even more keenly than her husband. The East had been the
dream of her girlhood, the land of her longing from the day when she and
her lover first plighted their troth in the Botanical Gardens, and the
reality of her maturer years. But the reality had been all too short.
To the end of her life she never ceased to regret Damascus; and even when
in her widowed loneliness she returned to England twenty years after the
recall, with her life's work well-nigh done, and waiting as she used to
say, for the "tinkling of his camel's bell," her eyes would glow and her
voice take a deeper note if she spoke of those two years at Damascus.
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