Captain Jim was a passionate worshipper of beauty . Every lovely thing heard or seen gave him a deep , subtle , inner joy that irradiated his life . He was quite keenly aware of his own lack of outward comeliness and lamented it . `` Folks say I 'm good , '' he remarked whimsically upon one occasion , `` but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks . But there , I reckon He knew what He was about , as a good Captain should . Some of us have to be homely , or the purty ones -- like Mistress Blythe here -- would n't show up so well . '' One evening Anne and Gilbert finally walked down to the Four Winds light . The day had begun sombrely in gray cloud and mist , but it had ended in a pomp of scarlet and gold . Over the western hills beyond the harbor were amber deeps and crystalline shallows , with the fire of sunset below . The north was a mackerel sky of little , fiery golden clouds . The red light flamed on the white sails of a vessel gliding down the channel , bound to a southern port in a land of palms . Beyond her , it smote upon and incarnadined the shining , white , grassless faces of the sand dunes . To the right , it fell on the old house among the willows up the brook , and gave it for a fleeting space casements more splendid than those of an old cathedral . They glowed out of its quiet and grayness like the throbbing , blood-red thoughts of a vivid soul imprisoned in a dull husk of environment . `` That old house up the brook always seems so lonely , '' said Anne . `` I never see visitors there . Of course , its lane opens on the upper road -- but I do n't think there 's much coming and going . It seems odd we 've never met the Moores yet , when they live within fifteen minutes ' walk of us . I may have seen them in church , of course , but if so I did n't know them . I 'm sorry they are so unsociable , when they are our only near neighbors . ''
`` Evidently they do n't belong to the race that knows Joseph , '' laughed XXXXX .
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