1 "I have greatly wronged thee," murmured Hester.
2 Madame Hester would have winced at that, I warrant me.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContextHighlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE 3 But, up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain.
4 But, as for me, I come to the inquest with other senses than they possess.
5 If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might have foreseen all this.
6 Goodwives," said a hard-featured dame of fifty, "I'll tell ye a piece of my mind.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContextHighlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE 7 Yet, if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff it.
8 You say truly," replied the other; "I am a stranger, and have been a wanderer, sorely against my will.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContextHighlight In III. THE RECOGNITION 9 Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.
10 Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophised in vain, I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee.
11 Truly, as I sought to convince him, the shame lay in the commission of the sin, and not in the showing of it forth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContextHighlight In III. THE RECOGNITION 12 Hester," said he, "I ask not wherefore, nor how thou hast fallen into the pit, or say, rather, thou hast ascended to the pedestal of infamy on which I found thee.
13 Open a passage; and I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel from this time till an hour past meridian.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContextHighlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE 14 Hester Prynne," said he, leaning over the balcony and looking down steadfastly into her eyes, "thou hearest what this good man says, and seest the accountability under which I labour.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContextHighlight In III. THE RECOGNITION 15 I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk to the southward; and am now brought hither by this Indian to be redeemed out of my captivity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContextHighlight In III. THE RECOGNITION 16 I might have known that, as I came out of the vast and dismal forest, and entered this settlement of Christian men, the very first object to meet my eyes would be thyself, Hester Prynne, standing up, a statue of ignominy, before the people.
17 Knowing your natural temper better than I, he could the better judge what arguments to use, whether of tenderness or terror, such as might prevail over your hardness and obstinacy, insomuch that you should no longer hide the name of him who tempted you to this grievous fall.
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