The Perversity of Pearl

Hester Prynne, the daughter of Apias home, very soon after her talk with a child about her heavenly father, had begun to inform her of those truths. The old minister seated himself in an armchair and made an effort to draw pearl betwixt his knees. But the child escaped through the open window and stood on the upper step looking like a wild tropical bird of rich plumage ready to take flight into the upper air. Mr. Wilson was not a little astonished at this outbreak, for he was a grandfatherly sort of personage and usually a vast favorite with children. 'Canst thou tell me, my child, who made thee?' Now Pearl knew well enough

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