The Minister's Memoir

Hester Prynne and Little Pearl were to be left in solitude among its dark old trees. The brook would add this other dale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overgirdened. As the minister departed he threw a backward glance, half expecting that he should discover only some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child. So great of a sick detude of his life could not at once be received as real,. but there was Hester, clad in her grey robe, still standing beside the tree trunk where Antiquitiago had been overthrown by an explosion. There was Pearl too, lightly dancing from the margin of the brook, now

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