Arthur Dimmesdale's Extenuation of His Crime

Arthur Dimmesdale was a clergyman at the head of the social system. He had once sinned, but kept his conscience all alive and painfully sensitive by the fretting of an unhealed wound. The whole seven years of outlaw and ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour. But Arthur Dimmesdale were such a man again to fall what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime? If it availed him somewhat that he was broken down by long and exquisite suffering, that his mind was darkened and confused by the very remorse which harrowed it; then Hester Prynne would persuade him to flee with her letter. It

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