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When he met his wife again one of her first questions was about this dinner, at which she had hoped her husband would dazzle and delight the whole company, and which she supposed might lead to his promotion. He then told her the whole story, not omitting his ill-humour. She listened with dismay, and then burst into tears. "Come," he commented, "I wasn't so bad as Stisted, anyhow." St.
Sleep being impossible, he used to sit up, sometimes alone, sometimes with Sir H. Stisted, until the small hours of the morning, smoking incessantly. Tragedy was dashed with comedy; one night a terrible uproar arose. The dining-room windows had been left open, the candles alight, and the pug asleep under the table forgotten.
In 1823 Mrs. Burton gave birth to a daughter, Maria Katharine Elisa, who became the wife of General Sir Henry Stisted; and on 3rd July 1824 to a son, Edward Joseph Netterville, both of whom were baptized at Elstree. While at Tours the children were under the care of their Hertfordshire nurse, Mrs.
Then came a great blow to Burton the death of his beloved niece "Minnie" Maria Stisted. Mrs. Burton, who was staying at Brighton, wrote to Miss Georgiana Stisted a most kind, sympathetic and beautiful letter a letter, however, which reveals her indiscreetness more clearly, perhaps, than any other that we have seen.
She thus described the occurrence in an unpublished letter to Miss Stisted. "Our orgie was great fun. The Bird and I wore Arab dresses. I went in the dress of an Arab lady of Damascus, but as myself, accompanied by Khamoor in her village dress and introducing Hadji Abdullah, a Moslem shaykh of Damascus. We then spoke only Arabic to each other, and the Bird broken French to the company present.
After an attack of influenza Lady Burton hired a cottage Holywell Lodge at Eastbourne where she stayed from September to March 1896, busying herself composing her autobiography. Two letters which she wrote to Miss Stisted from Holywell Lodge are of interest. Both are signed "Your loving Zoo." The first contains kindly references to Mr. and Mrs.
But a church was already in process of being built, mainly by the exertions of a lady, who assuredly cannot be forgotten by any one who ever knew the Baths in those days, or for many years afterwards Mrs. Stisted.
Burton's letters to Miss Stisted, is signed "Z," short for "Zoo." In February Mrs. Burton's mother, who had for years been paralysed, grew rapidly worse. Says Mrs. At this time everyone was talking about Livingstone, the story of the meeting of him and Stanley being still fresh in men's minds.
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.
While, however, he was thus playing the motiveless ogre, his brother-in-law, Sir Henry Stisted, at the other end of the table, was doing his utmost to render himself agreeable, and by the extraordinary means of rolling out anecdote after anecdote that told against the Scotch character.
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