Yet his idealised vision of Rose seemed to grow fainter as she ailed - assailed by her evangelist parents, who opposed the relationship; by Ruskin, who would never take no for an answer; and by his former wife, Effie (now married to John Everett Millais), who attested to Ruskin's "unnaturalness" and inability to perform on theirwedding night.
She'd been sleeping at her family home to receive care while she ailed, but unforeseeable disaster came in the middle of the night -- and it was her cat Ringo who saved the day, she recounted in a HuffPost Live conversation on Wednesday. .
A year before her death, I went to see her just after I'd been elected to Congress, and although she was ailing and hadn't recognized any of my saintly brothers, she knew me and said, 'You're as good as anybody,' which is the highest praise I ever got from her.
She revived ailing services like Air New Zealand and the railways by returning them to state ownership, and she made waves in the US when she insisted that New Zealand waters remain free of nuclear-powered vessels.
But she is ailing, too, having pulled out of tournaments in Mason and Montreal to treat a nagging knee injury.
She is ailing from painful arthritis in her knees that keep from her getting up to use the bathroom so she relies on a bed pan.
The Williamses — he a portly, diabetic lawyer who volunteered with the Texas State Guard; she his ailing yet supportive wife of 15 years — were accused of pulling off what even ruthless criminal organizations have rarely dared in modern times: the executions of two prosecutors, and the wife of one, to avenge a guilty verdict.
Some neurologists have speculated that she was ailing from a rare metabolic disorder called metachromatic leukodystrophy.
Knowing she cannot cure what ails Hank, she keeps a wary distance while still signaling her love.
She'd been ailing and deteriorating since she broke her first hip in October.
Her last day at work was Sept. 15, 2017, when she began a medical leave, but she'd been ailing before that.
