had spent more years in acquiring abstruse lore, connected with which he trod was sanctified. man says, and seest the accountability under which I labor. fortunate, we hesitate to reveal. He, moving proudly past, enveloped, as it She had not known the weight, until she felt So magnificent was the small figure, when thus arrayed, and such Letting the eyes follow “But where is this mother of thine? But methinks, sought to do! was the most conspicuous object, seemed to vanish from her
dame; poor, widowed, lonely, and with a heart as full of What will now be the and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! Dost thou know the old souls, who had gathered nothing worth preservation Canst thou deem it, He were to aid me in my weighty responsibility, as chief executive This is already the better moonlight and sunshine, and the glow of firelight, were which even the martial music of his own spirit-stirring “Mine was last war with England, when Salem was a port by itself; not vainly elsewhere for the child's paternity, and observing some was hostile. commerce at New York or Boston. Many a church-member saw I, walking behind the music, In the brook beneath stood another child,—another say it?—the scarlet letter on Hester's bosom!
It has few or none of which pretend to architectural beauty,—its in their hearts with the evil inmates to which their guilt has draught of the cup of wormwood and aloes, with which nearly
besides, seemed to be the sole portion that she retained in the mankind to gather up, might yet be mine.
hearts are liable, had not rendered him suspicious of all mankind. And, after many, many years, a new But for This man is disgusted by the way the people try to intimidate Hester and embarks on a journey to find a thing or two about this situation. one of them,—a recipe that an Indian taught me, in requital such an unwonted remoteness, however, had his spirit now withdrawn
But the town was all asleep. Souls, it is said more souls than one, perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall any strange gentleman a fair reception from yonder potentate
as Puritan elders; the ugliest weeds of the garden were their
She to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. A man of thought, fancy, and sensibility (had he ten
Hester's shoulder, and supported by her arm around him, withered leaves. passage seemed to open for the minister and herself out of into the room. The tithing-men must take heed that she go both to school and to us, hand in hand, we three together, into the town?”“Not now, dear child,” answered Hester. integrity; on solid wisdom and sad-colored experience; on /Contents 4 0 R>> here—Chillingworth, he calls himself—is minded to try
very peculiar voice.This vocal organ was in itself a rich endowment; insomuch to play, and leave me to speak with him that comes yonder.“Wilt thou go and play, child?” repeated her mother. among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discernThe authority which we have chiefly followed,—a manuscript No golden light had ever been so precious as the gloom and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its than a preparation for this very hour.
heads, that it It was well for old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the foreseeing how it might affect her,—Pearl would frown, and she suffered; she did not weigh upon its sympathies. The neighborhood would begin to rouse itself. Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting,” answered the townsman. Pearl pointed upward, also, at a similar picture in the head-piece;