The Embroidered Gloves of Hester Prynne

Hester Prynne went to the mansion of Governor Bellingham with a pair of gloves which she had fringed and embroidered. She was seeking an interview with a personage of so much power and activity in the affairs of the settlement. It had reached her ears that there was a design on the part of some of the leading inhabitants, nourishing the more rigid order of principles in religion and government, to deprive her of her child. On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother's soul required them to remove such a stumbling block from her path. Among those who promoted the

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