1 It is easy to see the mother's part in her.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER 2 She inherited her mother's gift for devising drapery and costume.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 3 And this, moreover, was a mother's estimate of the child's disposition.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 4 But, in the education of her child, the mother's enthusiasm of thought had something to wreak itself upon.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 5 At home, within and around her mother's cottage, Pearl wanted not a wide and various circle of acquaintance.
6 Again, as if her mother's agonised gesture were meant only to make sport for her, did little Pearl look into her eyes, and smile.
7 She took her mother's hand in both her own, and gazed into her eyes with an earnestness that was seldom seen in her wild and capricious character.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 8 As the last touch to her mermaid's garb, Pearl took some eel-grass and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother's.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 9 In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously, little Pearl paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 10 She was now of an age to run lightly along by her mother's side, and, constantly in motion from morn till sunset, could have accomplished a much longer journey than that before her.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL 11 Still came the battery of flowers, almost invariably hitting the mark, and covering the mother's breast with hurts for which she could find no balm in this world, nor knew how to seek it in another.
12 Just then she heard her mother's voice, and, flitting along as lightly as one of the little sea-birds, appeared before Hester Prynne dancing, laughing, and pointing her finger to the ornament upon her bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 13 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.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL 14 Pearl, in utter scorn of her mother's attempt to quiet her, gave an eldritch scream, and then became silent, not from any notion of obedience, but because the quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition was excited by the appearance of those new personages.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL 15 In the afternoon of a certain summer's day, after Pearl grew big enough to run about, she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother's bosom; dancing up and down like a little elf whenever she hit the scarlet letter.
16 The mother's impassioned state had been the medium through which were transmitted to the unborn infant the rays of its moral life; and, however white and clear originally, they had taken the deep stains of crimson and gold, the fiery lustre, the black shadow, and the untempered light of the intervening substance.
17 She saw her father's face, with its bold brow, and reverend white beard that flowed over the old-fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother's, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter's pathway.
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