Hester Prynne: The Worst of All Sinners

Hester Prynne looked into his face, but hesitated to speak. Yet uttering his long, restrained emotions so vehemently as he did, his words here offered her the very point of circumstances in which to interpose what she came to say. She conquered her fears and spoke. Such a friend, as thou hast even now wished for, said she. With whom to weep over thy sin, thou hasten me, the partner of it. The minister started to his feet, gasping for breath, and clutching at his heart as if he would have torn it out of his bosom. Ha, what sayest thou, cried he, an enemy? And under my own roof,

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