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Show ROMANCE IN RUSXIN'S LIFE Divergent Religious Views for Unj Time Separated Him From th Woman He Loved. In 1SG6 Ruskln declared his love for Eosie La Touche and told her parents of his hope to make her his wife, says J. Howard Whitehouse in Scribner's, There was a great difference of years between them. Huskln was forty-se?; en ; Kosie 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 tie part of the parents, but also by Rosle, 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 whlcb Euskln 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 Buskin's diary in the year 1ST0: "Last Friday about twelve o'clock at noon my mistress passed me tw would not speak." In the following year there was reconciliation. The end of Buskin's dream came 1S75. Miss La Touche's health never strong, begnn to fall, and she died in May of that year. |