In her eyes there was a taint of disgrace in such a calling . David must be transformed into a respectable , home-abiding tiller of broad lands . For five years all went well enough . If , at times , David 's longing for the sea troubled him , he stifled it , and listened not to its luring voice . He and Isabella were very happy ; the only drawback to their happiness lay in the regretted fact that they were childless . Then , in the sixth year , came a crisis and a change . Captain Barrett , an old crony of David 's , wanted him to go with him on a voyage as mate . At the suggestion all David 's long-repressed craving for the wide blue wastes of the ocean , and the wind whistling through the spars with the salt foam in its breath , broke forth with a passion all the more intense for that very repression . He must go on that voyage with James Barrett -- he MUST ! That over , he would be contented again ; but go he must . His soul struggled within him like a fettered thing . Isabella opposed the scheme vehemently and unwisely , with mordant sarcasm and unjust reproaches . The latent obstinacy of David 's character came to the support of his longing -- a longing which Isabella , with five generations of land-loving ancestry behind her , could not understand at all . He was determined to go , and he told Isabella so . `` I 'm sick of plowing and milking cows , '' he said hotly . `` You mean that you are sick of a respectable life , '' sneered Isabella . `` Perhaps , '' said David , with a contemptuous shrug of his shoulders . `` Anyway , I 'm going . '' `` If you go on this voyage , David Spencer , you need never come back here , '' said Isabella resolutely . David had gone ; he did not believe that she meant it .
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