"MY DEAR MRS. BURTON,
"I received your note here yesterday, and fear it is too late to do
anything, as the lists went in yesterday, and Lord Beaconsfield is
with the Queen to-day. So we must bear our misfortunes as best we
can, and hope for better days. I cannot help feeling that this change
is too violent to last long. But who can say? It is altogether so
astonishing. As regards Captain Burton, I hope you will not lose
anything. So valuable a public servant will, I hope, be sure of
recognition whatever Government may be in office.
"With our united kind regards to him and to you,
"Yours very sincerely,
"G. SALISBURY."
It was a sad home-coming for Isabel; for not only were her hopes, so
near fruition, dashed to the ground, but she found her husband very ill
from the effects of his accident and from gout. The first thing she did
was to send for a doctor, and take him off to Opcina. It is sad to note
that from this time we find in their letters and diaries frequent
complaints of sickness and suffering. They, who had rarely known what
illness meant, now had it with them as an almost constant companion.
From Opcina they went to Oberammergau to see the Passion Play, which
impressed them both very much, though in different ways. Isabel wrote
a long description of this play, which has never been published. Burton
also wrote an account, which has seen the light.
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