Both turned as Anne entered . `` Anne , this is Captain Boyd . Captain Boyd , my wife . '' It was the first time Gilbert had said `` my wife '' to anybody but Anne , and he narrowly escaped bursting with the pride of it . The old captain held out a sinewy hand to Anne ; they smiled at each other and were friends from that moment . Kindred spirit flashed recognition to kindred spirit . `` I 'm right down pleased to meet you , Mistress Blythe ; and I hope you 'll be as happy as the first bride was who came here . I ca n't wish you no better than THAT . But your husband does n't introduce me jest exactly right . ` Captain Jim ' is my week-a-day name and you might as well begin as you 're sartain to end up -- calling me that . You sartainly are a nice little bride , Mistress Blythe . Looking at you sorter makes me feel that I 've jest been married myself . '' Amid the laughter that followed Mrs. Doctor Dave urged Captain Jim to stay and have supper with them . `` Thank you kindly . ` Twill be a real treat , Mistress Doctor . I mostly has to eat my meals alone , with the reflection of my ugly old phiz in a looking-glass opposite for company . 'T is n't often I have a chance to sit down with two such sweet , purty ladies . '' Captain Jim 's compliments may look very bald on paper , but he paid them with such a gracious , gentle deference of tone and look that the woman upon whom they were bestowed felt that she was being offered a queen 's tribute in a kingly fashion . Captain Jim was a high-souled , simple-minded old man , with eternal youth in his eyes and heart . He had a tall , rather ungainly figure , somewhat stooped , yet suggestive of great strength and endurance ; a clean-shaven face deeply lined and bronzed ; a thick mane of iron-gray hair falling quite to his shoulders , and a pair of remarkably blue , deep-set eyes , which sometimes twinkled and sometimes dreamed , and sometimes looked out seaward with a wistful quest in them , as of one seeking something precious and lost .
XXXXX was to learn one day what it was for which Captain Jim looked .
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