It's all right so far.' He went his way back, speedily, taking a short cut over Loughrigg to his cottage.

His thoughts, as he climbed, were very full of Mrs.Sarratt.
But they were the thoughts of an artist--of a man who had studied beauty, and the European tradition of beauty, whether in form or landscape, for many years; who had worked--_a contre coeur_--in a Paris studio, and had copied Tintoret--fervently--in Venice; who had been a collector of most things, from Tanagra figures to Delia Robbias.

She made an impression upon him in her lightness and grace, her small proportions, her lissomness of outline, very like that of a Tanagra figure.

How had she come to spring from Manchester?
What kindred had she with the smoke and grime of a great business city?
He fell into amused speculation.

Manchester has always possessed colonies of Greek merchants.