Hester Prynne's View of the Pillory

Hester Prynne saw her own face glowing with girlish beauty and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at. She beheld another countenance of a man well-stricken in years of pale, thin, scholar-like visage; eyes dim and blared by the lamp-light that had served them to pour over many ponderous books. This figure of the study and the cloister was slightly deformed with the left shoulder and trifle higher than the right. Next rose before her, in her memories picture gallery, the intricate and narrow thoroughfares, the tall grey houses, the huge cathedrals: public ed

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