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Miss Stisted's indictment of Lady Burton on this point falls under three heads: First, that Sir Richard was dead before the priest arrived. Secondly, that he was never a Catholic at all, and so his wife acted in bad faith. Thirdly, that he "loathed" the Catholic religion. It is better to deal with these charges seriatim.
This, in brief, is the sum and substance of Stisted's indictment of Lady Burton on this point. She makes her accusation without adducing a scrap or shred of evidence in support of it, and she makes it in the teeth of the most positive evidence on the other side. Let us examine her charges in the light of facts.
What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? At this point of the narrative it is necessary to turn aside to deal with Miss Stisted's impeachment of Lady Burton, in the matter of her husband's recall from Damascus.
I read all the reviews that fell in my way, but though some were spiteful that need not discourage... Believe me, dearest G., your affectionate Zookins." Miss Stisted's novel was her first and last, but she did write another book some considerable time later, which, however, would not have won Mrs. Burton's approval. The Kasidah, 1880.
Miss Stisted's "True Life." As might have been expected, Lady Burton's Life of her husband gave umbrage to the Stisted family and principally for two reasons; first its attempt to throw a flood of Catholic colour on Sir Richard, and secondly because it contained statements which they held to be incorrect.
Was there ever a more improbable charge? But the accusation has overshot the mark, and, like the boomerang, it returns and injures no one but its author. Miss Stisted's Life of Sir Richard Burton, p. 360. This book was published December, 1896, eight months after Lady Burton's death. The Case of Captain Burton, Late K. B. M. Consul at Damascus. Clayton & Co., Parliamentary Printing Works, 1872.
This work was published in May, 1893. 3. Miss Stisted's Life of Burton, pp. 409-414. 4. Translated from the Italian. 5. A tonic, a strengthening restorative. 6. The Baroness Paul de Ralli, who procured the above attestation from the priest, sent it in the first instance to Cardinal Vaughan together with the following letter: "TRIESTE, AUSTRIA, January 19, 1897.
Writing on 24th June to his cousin, Dr. Edward John Burton, he says, "We returned here on the 18th inst., and the first thing I heard was the murder of my arch-enemy, Rashid Pasha. Serve the scoundrel right. He prevented my going to Constantinople and to Sana'a, in Arabia. I knew the murderous rascal too well to trust him. Maria wrote to me about poor Stisted's death.
The Mackenzies, the Murrays, the MacDonalds, the McQueens, looked black as thunder, and Stisted's amiability gave even more offence than Burton's ill-temper. Noticing that something was amiss opposite him, Burton stopped his own talk to listen. Then Stisted's innocence and the ludicrousness of the whole scene dawned upon him, and leaning back in his chair he roared with uncontrollable laughter.
Letter from Sir Henry Elliot to Lady Burton, July 12, 1871. Letter from Sir Henry Elliot to Lady Burton, July 12, 1871. Letter from Captain Burton to the Rev. E. B. Frankel, Rev. J. Orr Scott, Miss James, Rev. W. Wright, and Rev. Miss Stisted's Life of Burton, p.364. Tell whoso hath sorrow Grief shall never last: E'en as joy hath no morrow, So woe shall go past.
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