The Scarlet Letter to Pearl

The mother forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wilderness in the human child. Pearl gathered violets, and an inamis, and columbines, and some twigs of the freshest green. With these she decorated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child or an infant dryad. As she gathered Burles, and Diamonds, and rubies in the wood, they could not have become her better. She is a splendid child, but I know whose brow she has. Dost thou know as to set art the dimsdale with an unquiet smile, that this, dear child, tripping about

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