The Importance of Truth in What Hester Says

'There is truth in what she says,' began the minister with a voice, sweet, tremulous, and powerful. 'I've heard the woman had no better thought than to make a Montabank of a child.' Hester Prynne's situation provoked her to little less than madness. "Look thou to it. I will not lose the child!" The young minister stood on his tiptoes as if he were about to leap out from behind one of the walls into an unknown world. He said: 'Is my love for you so unobtrusive that was that pearl? Yet there knew that there was wild and flighty Pearl?'"

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