The Unhappiness of Esther Prine

Reverend Dimmes Dale was a young clergyman who had come from one of the great English universities. His eloquent and religious fervour had already given him the earnest of high aminence in his profession. But there was an era when he felt himself quite astray, and at her loss in the path where your human existence could only be at ease in some seclusion of his own. The Governor Bellingham introduced Mr. Wilson to the public notice by beating him openly on the earring with all men present. He then exhorted Reverend Dimmesdale to confess to the woman whose soul is so sacred that even its pollution can't cleanse it.

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