1 The father of Safie had been the cause of their ruin.
2 The poor that stopped at their door were never driven away.
3 My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror.
4 Their colours and their forms, were then to him.
5 But I felt that I had no right to share their intercourse.
6 I remained for several years their only child.
7 I entered it and approached the tomb which marked their graves.
8 They had not been long married, and their eldest child was but just born.
9 They entered, and their leader addressed me.
10 I took their word for all that they averred, and I became their disciple.
11 I sat on the front steps with them while they waited for their car.
12 Mr. Dimmesdale gently repelled their entreaties.
13 "Yet some men bury their secrets thus," observed the calm physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 14 In their eyes, the very ground on which he trod was sanctified.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART 15 By the by, I mean to lecture you a little upon their account myself.