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And this nervousness had latterly been increased to terror by what she had learned from her fellow-outcasts the hideous tales of oppression, of robbery, of bodily and moral degradation. But all this terror had been purely fanciful, as any emotion not of experience proves to be when experience evokes the reality.
Louise was returning to Cap'n Abe's store, and she turned in that direction before she saw that Mr. Bane was bound down the hill, too. "I fancy we are fellow-outcasts," he said. "You, too, are a visitor to this delightfully quaint place?" "Yes, Mr. Bane," she returned frankly. "Though I can claim relationship to some of these Cardhaven folk. My mother came from the Cape." "Indeed?
When "off duty," and luxuriating in tobacco and relaxation, he occupied himself as an amateur shoemaker, tailor, musician, and stick-whittler, to the no small advantage of himself and his fellow-outcasts, of whom there were five or six, besides the principals already mentioned. Le Rue's face bore an expression of dissatisfaction and perplexity as he entered the hall.
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