And _that_ their new champion did not then foresee.

All he knew was that, just when he was sadly leaving the scene, Turner gone and night coming on, new lights arose.

It was really far more noteworthy that Millais and Rossetti and Hunt were _men of genius_, than that the "principles" they tried to illustrate were sound, and that Ruskin divined their power, and generously applauded them.
Immediately after finishing the pamphlet on "Pre-Raphaelitism," he left for the Continent with his wife and friends, the Rev.and Mrs.Daniel Moore; spent a fortnight in his beloved Savoy, with the Pritchards; and then crossed the Alps with Charles Newton.

On the 1st of September he was at Venice, for a final spell of labour on the palaces and churches.
After spending a week with Rawdon Brown he settled at Casa Wetzler, Campo Sta.

Maria Zobenigo, and during the autumn and winter not only worked extremely hard at his architecture, but went with his wife into Austrian and Italian society and saw many distinguished visitors.