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 . Anne was to learn one day what it was for which Captain Jim looked . It could not be denied that Captain Jim was a homely man . His spare jaws , rugged mouth , and square brow were not fashioned on the lines of beauty ; and he had passed through many hardships and sorrows which had marked his body as well as his soul ; but though at first sight Anne thought him plain she never thought anything more about it -- the spirit shining through that rugged tenement beautified it so wholly . They gathered gaily around the supper table . The hearth fire banished the chill of the September evening , but the window of the dining room was open and sea breezes entered at their own sweet will . The view was magnificent , taking in the harbor and the sweep of low , purple hills beyond . The table was heaped with Mrs. Doctor 's delicacies but the piece de resistance was undoubtedly the big platter of sea trout . `` Thought they 'd be sorter tasty after travelling , '' said Captain Jim . `` They 're fresh as trout can be , Mistress Blythe . Two hours ago they were swimming in the Glen Pond . ''
`` Who is attending to the light tonight , Captain XXXXX ? ''
Anne Jim Twill day evening fire mane phiz seaward sorter