`` Gus was mad as hops -- partly because he 'd been dragged out of bed , but more because he 's a Tory . He vowed he would n't shave any man after twelve at night . '' ` You 'll do what I want you to do , sonny , ' said Marshall , ` or I 'll jest turn you over my knee and give you one of those spankings your mother forgot . ' `` He 'd have done it , too , and Gus knew it , for Marshall is as strong as an ox and Gus is only a midget of a man . So he gave in and towed Marshall in to the shop and went to work . ` Now , ' says he , ` I 'll barber you up , but if you say one word to me about the Grits getting in while I 'm doing it I 'll cut your throat with this razor , ' says he . You would n't have thought mild little Gus could be so bloodthirsty , would you ? Shows what party politics will do for a man . Marshall kept quiet and got his hair and beard disposed of and went home . When his old housekeeper heard him come upstairs she peeked out of her bedroom door to see whether 't was him or the hired boy . And when she saw a strange man striding down the hall with a candle in his hand she screamed blue murder and fainted dead away . They had to send for the doctor before they could bring her to , and it was several days before she could look at Marshall without shaking all over . '' Captain Jim had no fish . He seldom went out in his boat that summer , and his long tramping expeditions were over . He spent a great deal of his time sitting by his seaward window , looking out over the gulf , with his swiftly-whitening head leaning on his hand . He sat there tonight for many silent minutes , keeping some tryst with the past which Anne would not disturb . Presently he pointed to the iris of the West : `` That 's beautiful , is n't , it , Mistress Blythe ? But I wish you could have seen the sunrise this morning . It was a wonderful thing -- wonderful . I 've seen all kinds of sunrises come over that gulf .
I 've been all over the world , Mistress Blythe , and take it all XXXXX all , I 've never seen a finer sight than a summer sunrise over the gulf .
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