Show BRITISH PEERESS HAD ELEVEN HUSBANDS from the gentlewoman male in the east arc familiar enrigh but a female one la not often to io lighted on many women like catherine of russia and joan 0 naples have dispensed with tho marriage tie altogether but of those who have entered into it slipped out of it ten times and maht perhaps have managed at once more had not the law of islam forbade the only known instance save the woman of samaria Is the lion janet elizabeth digby married in 1824 to tho second lord and who died in 1881 alto of shaykh ot the mesrob branch 0 the Bedaw ln of noble english birth brilliant accomplishments singular beauty and grace attractions which remained to her till her death at the age of 73 she bad the misfortune at her coming out ball to attract the notice of the vain weak but imperious lord ellenborg ellenboro Ellen boro and so at iho age of 16 tho poor child was by episcopal bands duly made over to him the set into which lord ellenborg ellenboro Ellen boro introduced his child was notorious even in those days an intimacy sprung up with prince schwarzen barg and thero came an explosion the peeress confessing to her husband with the somewhat tunny addition that she was innocent in act and in due time the act of parliament tor her divorce was passed she retaining her magnificent jewelry and her pin money ot 1200 pounds a year lord ellenborg ellenboro Ellen boro was a wealthy man by virtue of those sinecure appointments have to be explained to a generation like the present As son of the lord chief justice ot the kings bench he held its ahlet clerkship with a moiety ot the becs paid to its custea Bre vium the two averaging nearly pounds a jear in addition bo held ot course the estates which supported the title but for the english law ot settlement this poor ladys wild career might have never happened the sole condition attached to the continuance ti nuance ot her income bound her to leave england forever a promise naturally broken but she left england with her betrayer his abandonment caused her acute pain but she soon married a german baron from whom in time she got a divorce such things not being difficult in the fatherland she then went to italy presumably in 1840 where she actually married and divorced one after the other six italians as the poor lady told her sole friend on her deathbed it was always the money they wanted and when hac would alvo no more tha marriage was oft A woman of great and dignified beauty mistress ot nine languages an with both brush and pencil possessing that marcellous marvellous marv ellous thing in woman a low sweet voice with uncommonly good business talents to boot as wo shall see by and by she was the elave of and abo latin race in time palled upon her so she went to the isles ot greece and at athens married a count theodoke kl by whom she had two children one of whom met a tragic death in his mothers presence but discarding the father she took up with a chief of pall kars for whom she built a house near the piraeus in time she divorced him also perhaps the example of lady hester stanhope drew her to ahe east ignoring that marriage is not there so easily slipped off and that islam holds woman as a chattel to be thrown aside or even put to death at her husbands pleasure nevertheless she faced her troubles bravely when they came landing in 1858 at the age of 50 at beirut she still possessed her air 0 lime her gr arcil cil arte rr te nd carmot har mot manner lady burton who linew her later styles her more attractive than many young girls she went thence to damascus proposing lo 10 cross the desert to bagdad for which an escort was necessary procurable from the mesrob arabs a branch of the great kanazeh tribe who controlled the roads knew all the wells and pleasantly varied their rights by mackrall Mack mall so that travellers trav ellers who had paid francs each sometimes found themselves held up tor as much more over this department lady ellenborg ellenboro Ellen boro subsequently presided with great success and an amusing instance of how she was once done by dour impecunious sir bichard burton Is to como later on her escort was captained by one bhayan a younger brother of the tribal head an intelligent man of pleasant address and exactly halt her age lady Ei irton however by no means fancied him a dirty little black much darker than arabs are ua bally she repeatedly took tor A servant when he opened the door she could not imagine how a lady of her friends refinement could endure contact with such a black skin yet the two fell in love although their courting roust iliavi been by signs only w be could not speak a word ot her language nor she of his although iche subsequently gave up two years of her lile to learn it there was great opposition to her marriage the consul refused to per lorm it warned her that she would become a turkish subject by it and even tinted at restraint as for a lunatic she was prevailed upon to postpone it for two years which she spent ot beirut learning arabic so all that could be done was to make tor her tho shaykh agreed to divorce all hta other wives and to marry no new ones a promise lie kept to the end were to live sir months in siar houpo cus gates and six months in bla black unta in the desert within tinkle of the camels bell even after this tie bontol would not marry thero and the huttl officiated so abla strange being commenced a new and double existence while in civilization dressing as an arab wo more bedahl than the beda aln wearing a veil blackening her eyes with kohl living native fashion and in I ady buttons opinion very untidily but drawing painting and so forth in a bondor fitted ap with coselm adornments the chief being a highly prized lamp from the great mosque at mecca before referred lo 10 she had on at home day associating ath the email european society and basking in lady bertona Bur tona somewhat Bome what feline favor to the extent of dictating lier ro strange an apologia would lave been interest all A ing but the ladies fell out and it cr saw tho light she rodo in every sunday to attend the english church once or twice but tho other half year had a rough cr tone wearing alio arab comans womans blue robe with her beautiful hair in two plaits reaching to her feet she gloried in her duty as a alto grinding the corn milking the cam cla washing her husbands hands and foot cooking bis food and waiting on him ahll he ate it and at both places she was her tribes agent for the escort and blackmailing business making indeed but one mistake which came about thus and might have come out awkwardly for her but for her money indeed of which one part went to keep her husbands other wives and families aloof from her the other part to buy for him new arms and presents she might tor this slip have come in for the eunuchs enn whip and aavo had to recognize that life was not her own but her masters consul burton and his wife isabel wished to palmyra without pay ng anything to the indeed they had hot the money francs per head so lady the hon jane digby s mesrob foreseeing that if the bartons burtons got through safely the tribes business would suffer tried a stratagem as her tears and fears were impotent to stop the Journey she lent them a tribesman whose instructions were to lead them into an ambush where the rest of the tribe could hold up II 11 B M s consul and his wife but burton disarmed the SPY replaced his arab steed by a humble jackass kept him guarded night and day and even used him as cover when raiders came looking round when on his return to damascus the spy reported his treatment jane could only tell isabel that she would take care t should not occur again this strange duel life which only death could terminate for divorce by the laws of islam for the alone lasted thirteen years when the woman of seventy three was seized ath typhoid alt tied from it in abject fear and only the kindly wife of an english missionary tended her during the nine days of buttering till there came to the poor repentant sinner what islam beautifully terms the mercy of god and the gentle nurse passed alone with the corpse its last night upon earth that the remains of a christian woman might rest in christian ground and not as the husband wished among his kin and the good missionary did so lay her to rest ath a christian service and a christian monument later on living upon some pounds a year ier savings in the bank were rounds this her jewelry went 0 the husband although she had during life sent some trinkets to the german barano son surely no stranger life was ever seen han that of this english peeress high born cradled in luxury possessing evely passport to success beauty grace charm of manner distinguished appearance rare accomplishments and everything that was engaging in both body and mind brilliantly married with means more than ample ebe was to die on a mattress placed on the ground in a foreign land shunned and deserted by all save tho one kindly christian woman who closed her eyes when the poor sinner had entered the dark valley |