His wife returned to her parents and instituted a suit against him, to which he made no answer.

The marriage was annulled in July.

A year later she married Millais.
In May (1854) the Pre-Raphaelites again needed his defence.

Mr.Holman Hunt exhibited the "Light of the World" and the "Awakening Conscience." Ruskin made them the theme of two more letters to _The Times_; mentioning, by the way, the "spurious imitations of Pre-Raphaelite work" which were already becoming common.

Starting for his summer tour on the Continent, in the Simmenthal he wrote a pamphlet on the opening of the Crystal Palace.