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1  I must needs look deeper into it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
2  The struggle, if there were one, need not be described.
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ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
3  Thou wearest it openly, so there need be no question about that.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
4  "Then I need ask no further," said the clergyman, somewhat hastily rising from his chair.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
5  Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
6  Nay, then, wear it, if it suit you better," rejoined he, "A woman must needs follow her own fancy touching the adornment of her person.
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ContextHighlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
7  "And, since Satan saw fit to steal it, your reverence must needs handle him without gloves henceforward," remarked the old sexton, grimly smiling.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
8  He needed to bask himself in that smile, he said, in order that the chill of so many lonely hours among his books might be taken off the scholar's heart.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
9  All came forth to move in procession before the people's eye, and thus impart a needed dignity to the simple framework of a government so newly constructed.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
10  And we must needs say it seared Hester's bosom so deeply, that perhaps there was more truth in the rumour than our modern incredulity may be inclined to admit.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
11  So long estranged by fate and circumstances, they needed something slight and casual to run before and throw open the doors of intercourse, so that their real thoughts might be led across the threshold.
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ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
12  They approached the door, which was of an arched form, and flanked on each side by a narrow tower or projection of the edifice, in both of which were lattice-windows, the wooden shutters to close over them at need.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
13  You must needs be a stranger in this region, friend," answered the townsman, looking curiously at the questioner and his savage companion, "else you would surely have heard of Mistress Hester Prynne and her evil doings.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
14  So far as a demeanour of natural authority was concerned, the mother country need not have been ashamed to see these foremost men of an actual democracy adopted into the House of Peers, or make the Privy Council of the Sovereign.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
15  But, under the leaden infliction which it was her doom to endure, she felt, at moments, as if she must needs shriek out with the full power of her lungs, and cast herself from the scaffold down upon the ground, or else go mad at once.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
16  Now that there was an end, they needed more breath, more fit to support the gross and earthly life into which they relapsed, than that atmosphere which the preacher had converted into words of flame, and had burdened with the rich fragrance of his thought.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
17  The pine-trees, aged, black, and solemn, and flinging groans and other melancholy utterances on the breeze, needed little transformation to figure as Puritan elders; the ugliest weeds of the garden were their children, whom Pearl smote down and uprooted most unmercifully.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
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