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Show ROMANCE IN BUSKIN'S LIFE Divergent Religious Views for Long; , Time Separated Him From th Woman He Loved. In 1868 Ruskln declared his love for Rosle La Touche and told her parents of his hope to make her his wife, says J. Howard Whltehouse In Scribner's. There was a great difference of years between them. Ruskln was forty-seven ; Hosie was in her eighteenth year. There was some natural hesitation on the part of the parents, and it was arranged ar-ranged that the matter should.be postponed post-poned for three years. But when the period of probation was ended new difficulties arose. There was hesitation not only on the part of the parents, but also by Rosie. Miss La Touche was of a deeply religious re-ligious nature, but her views were orthodox or-thodox and she did not share the wider views on spiritual questions in which Ruskln increasingly believed. Her love for him had never wavered wav-ered since the days of her childhood; but she doubted if, holding the views she did, she could marry him. Both she and Ruskln suffered the deepest distress. For a little time there was estrangement, es-trangement, and there is a moving entry en-try In Ruskln's diary In the year 1870: "Last Friday about twelve o'clock nt noon my mistress passed me and would not speak." In the following year there was reconciliation. The end of Ruskln's dream came in 1S75. Miss La Touche's health never strong, began to fall, and she died in May of that year. |