Nerve then thy heart; the toil will soon be done,
The crown of self-denial nobly earned and won.
From Lady Burton's Devotional Book "Tan."
Lady Burton remained at Trieste three months after her husband's death.
We have seen how she spent the first weeks of her bereavement, locked
up with his manuscripts and papers. During that time she would see no
one, speak to no one. When her work was done, all her husband's wishes
as to the disposal of his private papers carried out, and the manuscripts
duly sorted and arranged, she came out from her seclusion, and put
herself a little in touch with the world again. She was deeply touched
at the sympathy which was shown to her. The Burtons had been so many
years at Trieste, and were so widely known there and respected, that
Sir Richard's death was felt as a public loss. A eulogy of Sir Richard
was delivered in the Diet of Trieste, and the House adjourned as a mark
of respect to his memory. The city had three funeral requiems for him,
and hundreds of people in Trieste, from the highest to the lowest, showed
their sympathy with his widow. Her friends rallied round her, for they
knew that her loss was no ordinary one, and she had consigned to the
grave all that made life worth living for her. Nor was this sympathetic
regard confined to Trieste alone; the English press was full of the "dead
lion," and the dominant note was that he had not been done justice to
while he was alive.
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