we suppose this interview betwixt Mistress Hibbins and Hester Prynne to be authentic, and not a parable
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was as if she had been made afresh out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life, and be a law unto herself without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.
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scroll so wide might not be deemed too expensive for Providence to write a people's doom upon.
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She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatised by the scarlet letter
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No golden light had ever been so precious as
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the gloom of this dark forest
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The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!
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and only wondered that Heaven should see fit to transmit the grand and solemn music of its oracles through so foul an organ pipe as he
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We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gaiety