sentences:  Effie, in a letter to her parents, claimed that Ruskin found her "person" repugnant.He alleged various reasons, hatred of children, religious motives, a desire to preserve my beauty, and finally this last year he told me his true reason... that he had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was, and that the reason he did not make me his Wife was because he was disgusted with my person the first evening 10th April [1848].Ruskin told his lawyer during the annulment proceedings.