When Rossetti first asked her to pose for him the ideal beauty thought that he wanted her for fashion plates. She little thought that she was to be made the object of a great artist’s lifework. Her death plunged Rossetti into lifelong misery, almost insanity. Up to the moment of his own death in 1882 he never ceased to grieve for her. “Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even.” PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 1, NO. 28, SERIAL NO. 28 End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mentor: The Wife in Art, Vol. 1, Num. 28, Serial No. 28, by Gustav Kobbé