Hester Prynne, Are You There?

Hester Prynne was standing on a scaffold when she heard the minister's voice. He said he had been watching at Governor Winthrop's deathbed, and have taken his measure for a robe. She silently ascended the steps and stood on the platform, holding little Pearl by the hand. The moment that he did so, there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other life than his own,. It poured like a torrent into his heart, as if the mother and the child were communicating their vital warmth to his half-torped system. All people in a word would come stumbling over their thresholds and turning up their amazed and horror-stricken visages around the scaff

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