Show ROMANCE IN LIFE divergent religious views for long time separated him from th the woman H he loved in 1866 ruskin buskin declared his love for la touche and told her parents of his hope to make her his hl wife says J howard whitehouse in liners there was a great difference of years year between them ruskin was forty sev en hosle was in her eighteenth year there was some natural hesitation on the part of the parents and it was arranged that the matter should be post boned tor for three years but when the period of probation was ended new difficulties arose there was hesitation not only on tto the part of the parents but also by roste miss la touche was of a deeply religious nature but her views were or thodor and she did not share the wider view sion spiritual questions in which ruskin Ru skirl increasingly believed iter love lor for him had never liiv wavered since the days of her childhood but she doubted if holding tile views she did she could marry mm him both she and druikin suffered the deepest distress for a little time there was estrangement tran gement and there Is fl a moving entry in diary alory in the year 1870 last friday about twelve at noon my mistress passed me and would not speak inthe following year there was reconciliation the end of Rusk Rus kini lna dream came in 1875 miss la bouc touches bes health never strong began to fall end and she died in may of that year |