Anne and Gilbert promised to come soon and often . `` He 's a rare old fellow , is n't he ? '' said Gilbert , as they walked home . `` Somehow , I ca n't reconcile his simple , kindly personality with the wild , adventurous life he has lived , '' mused Anne . `` You would n't find it so hard if you had seen him the other day down at the fishing village . One of the men of Peter Gautier 's boat made a nasty remark about some girl along the shore . Captain Jim fairly scorched the wretched fellow with the lightning of his eyes . He seemed a man transformed . He did n't say much -- but the way he said it ! You 'd have thought it would strip the flesh from the fellow 's bones . I understand that Captain Jim will never allow a word against any woman to be said in his presence . '' `` I wonder why he never married , '' said Anne . `` He should have sons with their ships at sea now , and grandchildren climbing over him to hear his stories -- he 's that kind of a man . Instead , he has nothing but a magnificent cat . '' But Anne was mistaken . Captain Jim had more than that . He had a memory . CHAPTER 10 LESLIE MOORE `` I 'm going for a walk to the outside shore tonight , '' Anne told Gog and Magog one October evening . There was no one else to tell , for Gilbert had gone over the harbor . Anne had her little domain in the speckless order one would expect of anyone brought up by Marilla Cuthbert , and felt that she could gad shoreward with a clear conscience .
Many and delightful had been her XXXXX rambles , sometimes with Gilbert , sometimes with Captain Jim , sometimes alone with her own thoughts and new , poignantly-sweet dreams that were beginning to span life with their rainbows .
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