The scarlet letter. The house of the seven gablesF. DeFau & Company, 1902 |
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Alice ancholy answered appeared Arthur Dimmesdale aspect beauty beheld Bellingham bosom breast breath brought Chanticleer character child clergyman Clifford Cousin Hepzibah cried Custom-House daguerrotype dark dead dear death Dimmes Dimmesdale door dream evil eyes face fancy father feel felt figure flowers garden gaze gray hand happy harpsichord hath Hawthorne heard heart Hester Prynne Holgrave human Jaffrey Jim Crow Judge Pyncheon kind knew lady laugh likewise little Pearl look man's Matthew Maule Maule's ment mind minister Miss Hepzibah mother nature ness never Old Manse old Roger Chillingworth once parlor passed perhaps person Phoebe Phoebe's physician poor possessed Puritan Reverend scarlet letter scene scowl secret seemed Seven Gables shadow smile soul speak spirit stern stood story strange street sunshine sympathy thee things thou thought town truth turned Uncle Venner voice Waldo County whispered whole wild window witchcraft woman yonder young
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Stran 33 - Thus, therefore, the floor of our familiar room has become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet, and each imbue itself with the nature of the other.
Stran 49 - But the point which drew all eyes and, as it were, transfigured the wearer— so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time— was that .Scarlet Letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.
Stran 81 - Man had marked this woman's sin by a scarlet letter, which had such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her, save it were sinful like herself. God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom, to connect her parent for ever with the race and descent of mortals, and to be finally a blessed soul in heaven!
Stran 6 - This old town of Salem — my native place, though I have dwelt much away from it, both in boyhood and maturer years—possesses, or did possess, a hold on my affections, the force of which I have never realized during my seasons of actual residence here.
Stran 54 - Could it be true? She clutched the child so fiercely to her breast that it sent forth a cry; she turned her eyes downward at the scarlet letter, and even touched it with her finger, to assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes!— these were her realities— all else had vanished!
Stran 75 - Instead of discussing her claim to rank among ladies, it would be preferable to regard Phoebe as the example of feminine grace and availability combined, in a state of society, if there were any such, where ladies did not exist. There it should be woman's office to move in the midst of practical affairs, and to gild them all, the very homeliest, — were it even the scouring of pots and kettles, — with an atmosphere of loveliness and joy.
Stran 51 - There can be no outrage, methinks, against our common nature, — whatever be the delinquencies of the individual, — no outrage more flagrant than to forbid the culprit to hide his face for shame; as it was the essence of this punishment to do.
Stran 203 - At least they shall say of me," thought this exemplary man, "that I leave no public duty unperformed, nor ill performed!" Sad, indeed, that an introspection so profound and acute as this poor minister's should be so miserably deceived! We have had, and may still have, worse things to tell of him; but none, we apprehend, so pitiably weak; no evidence, at once so slight and irrefragable, of a subtle disease that had long since begun to eat into the real substance of his character. No man for any considerable...
Stran 22 - Even the old Inspector was desirable, as a change of diet, to a man who had known Alcott. I look upon it as an evidence, in some measure, of a system naturally well balanced, and lacking no essential part of a thorough organization, that, with such associates to remember, I could mingle at once with men of altogether different qualities, and never murmur at the change.
Stran 44 - ... sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson, as she entered the prison-door, — we shall not take upon us to determine. Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.