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1  We may speak further of it hereafter.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
2  If spoken to, she would not speak again.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
3  "You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness," said old.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
4  So learned a man as you speak of should have learned this too in his books.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
5  "Nay, mother, I have told all I know," said Pearl, more seriously than she was wont to speak.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
6  "You speak in riddles, learned sir," said the pale minister, glancing aside out of the window.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
7  Madame Hester absolutely refuseth to speak, and the magistrates have laid their heads together in vain.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
8  She had witnessed the intense misery beneath which the minister struggled, or, to speak more accurately, had ceased to struggle.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
9  The people, in the case of which we speak, could justify its prejudice against Roger Chillingworth by no fact or argument worthy of serious refutation.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
10  Then, to speak more plainly," continued the physician, "and I crave pardon, sir, should it seem to require pardon, for this needful plainness of my speech.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
11  Ah," replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness, which, whether imposed or natural, marked all his deportment, "it is thus that a young clergyman is apt to speak.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
12  When they found voice to speak, it was at first only to utter remarks and inquiries such as any two acquaintances might have made, about the gloomy sky, the threatening storm, and, next, the health of each.
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ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
13  Such was the young man whom the Reverend Mr. Wilson and the Governor had introduced so openly to the public notice, bidding him speak, in the hearing of all men, to that mystery of a woman's soul, so sacred even in its pollution.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
14  For, though bred a lawyer, and accustomed to speak of Bacon, Coke, Noye, and Finch, as his professional associates, the exigencies of this new country had transformed Governor Bellingham into a soldier, as well as a statesman and ruler.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
15  But that perversity, which all children have more or less of, and of which little Pearl had a tenfold portion, now, at the most inopportune moment, took thorough possession of her, and closed her lips, or impelled her to speak words amiss.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
16  The young minister, on ceasing to speak had withdrawn a few steps from the group, and stood with his face partially concealed in the heavy folds of the window-curtain; while the shadow of his figure, which the sunlight cast upon the floor, was tremulous with the vehemence of his appeal.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
17  So powerful seemed the minister's appeal that the people could not believe but that Hester Prynne would speak out the guilty name, or else that the guilty one himself in whatever high or lowly place he stood, would be drawn forth by an inward and inevitable necessity, and compelled to ascend the scaffold.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
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