The Scarlet LetterLaird & Lee, 1892 |
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Ann Hutchinson answered Hester Art thou Arthur Dimmesdale aspect beauty beheld beneath bosom breast brook brought cerns character child clergyman cried Custom-House dark deep Dimmes Dimmesdale's Dost thou earth earthly England evil eyes face fancy father felt forest gaze gleam Governor Bellingham grave gray guilty hand hath head heart heaven Hester Prynne hither human ignominy imagine impulse infant intel kind King's Chapel knew laughed light likewise little Pearl look magistrates man's market-place mind minister minister's Mistress Hibbins moral murmur nature never Old Manse old Roger Chillingworth once pale passed passion perhaps physician pillory poor Prynne's Puritan reverence Reverend scaffold scarlet letter scene secret seemed seen shadow shame smile solemn sorrow soul speak spect spirit step stood strange sunshine sympathy thee thou hast thought tion token torture town tremulous truth venerable voice whispered wild Wilt thou woman yonder young
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