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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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The Vanity of Hester

needlework was seen on the rough of the governor, military men wore it on their scars. Hester sought not to acquire anything beyond a substance but the plainest and most ascetic description for herself and a simple abundance for her child. She added in her nature a rich, voluptuous, oriental characteristic, a taste for the gorgeously beautiful. To Hester Prynne, it might have been a mode of expressing, and therefore soothing, the passion of her life. Like all other joys, she rejected it as a sin. This morbid meddling of conscious with immaterial matter be token. But something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong be me.

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