Having come here from England in 1875 after my marriage, I was
looked upon by the Burtons as a sort of ex-subject of theirs.
"Believe me to be, my Lord Cardinal,
"Yours faithfully,
"CATHERINE DE RALLI."
8. Speech at the Anthropological Society, London, 1865.
BOOK III. WIDOWED. (1890-1896).
"_El Maraa min ghayr Zaujuga mislaha tayaran maksus el Jenakk._"
("The woman without her husband is like a bird with one wing.")
CHAPTER I. THE TRUTH ABOUT "THE SCENTED GARDEN."
Now I indeed will hide desire and all repine,
And light up this my fire that neighbours see no sign:
Accept I what befalls by order of my Lord,
Haply he too accept this humble act of mine.
ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH
(_Burton's "Arabian Nights"_).
Sir Richard Burton's funeral was attended by a great crowd of mourners
and representatives of every class in Trieste. The Austrian
authorities accorded him military honours, and the Bishop of Trieste
conceded all the rites of the Church. His remains were laid, with much
pomp and circumstance, in their temporary resting-place--a small chapel
in the burial-ground--until his widow could take them back with her to
England. The funeral over, Lady Burton returned to her desolate house--
a home no longer, for the loved presence which had made the palazzo a
home, as it would have made a home to her of the humblest hut on earth,
was gone for ever.
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