flower art painting

He leapt up lightly, arranged the reins, and was gone between the tall red-berried hedges. ¡¡¡¡Tess did not look after him, but slowly wound along the crooked lane. It was still early, and though the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet. There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her sadder self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane. ¡¡¡¡As she walked, however, some footsteps approached behind her, the footsteps of a man; and owing to the briskness of his advance he was close at her heels and had said `Good morning' before she had been long aware of his propinquity. He appeared to be an artisan of some sort, and carried a tin pot of red paint in his hand. He asked in a business-like manner if he should take her basket, which she permitted him to do, walking beside him. ¡¡¡¡`It is early to be astir this Sabbath morn!' he said cheerfully. ¡¡¡¡`Yes,' said Tess. ¡¡¡¡`When most people are at rest from their week's work.'