The ways of Four Winds were less staid and settled and grooved than those of Avonlea ; winds of change blew over them ; the sea called ever to the dwellers on shore , and even those who might not answer its call felt the thrill and unrest and mystery and possibilities of it . `` I understand now why some men must go to sea , '' said Anne . `` That desire which comes to us all at times -- ` to sail beyond the bourne of sunset ' -- must be very imperious when it is born in you . I do n't wonder Captain Jim ran away because of it . I never see a ship sailing out of the channel , or a gull soaring over the sand-bar , without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings , not like a dove ` to fly away and be at rest , ' but like a gull , to sweep out into the very heart of a storm . '' `` You 'll stay right here with me , Anne-girl , '' said Gilbert lazily . `` I wo n't have you flying away from me into the hearts of storms . '' They were sitting on their red sand-stone doorstep in the late afternoon . Great tranquillities were all about them in land and sea and sky . Silvery gulls were soaring over them . The horizons were laced with long trails of frail , pinkish clouds . The hushed air was threaded with a murmurous refrain of minstrel winds and waves . Pale asters were blowing in the sere and misty meadows between them and the harbor . `` Doctors who have to be up all night waiting on sick folk do n't feel very adventurous , I suppose , '' Anne said indulgently . `` If you had had a good sleep last night , Gilbert , you 'd be as ready as I am for a flight of imagination . '' `` I did good work last night , Anne , '' said Gilbert quietly . `` Under God , I saved a life . This is the first time I could ever really claim that . In other cases I may have helped ; but , Anne , if I had not stayed at Allonby 's last night and fought death hand to hand , that woman would have died before morning . I tried an experiment that was certainly never tried in Four Winds before .
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