The Iron Link of Mutual Crime

Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy. Her whole soul was moved by the shuddering terror with which he had appealed to her, the outcast woman, for support against his instinctively discovered enemy. Here was the iron link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break. Like all other ties, it brought along with it its obligations. She never battled with the public but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage. It is to the credit of human nature that except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred by a gradual

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