The Scarlet Letter

Hester's mother had created an analogy between the object of her affection and the emblem of her guilt and torture. Pearl, who was a dauntless child, after frowning, stamping her foot and shaking her little hand with a variety of threatening gestures, suddenly made a rush at the knot of her enemies and put them all to flight. She resembled in her fierce pursuit of them an infant pestilence. The victory accomplished, Pearl returned quietly to her mother and looked up, smiling, into her face. Without further adventure they reached the dwelling of Governor Bellingham. This was a large wooden house built in a fashion of which there are specimens still extant in the streets of our older

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