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Come, good sir; let the sun shine from behind the cloud. First lay aside your black veil, then tell me why you put it on." Mr. Hooper's smile glimmered faintly. "There is an hour to come," said he ...
Come, good sir, let the sun shine from behind the cloud. First lay aside your black veil: then tell me why you put it on.”. Mr. Hooper’s smile glimmered faintly. “There is an hour to come,” said he, “when all of us shall cast aside our veils. Take it not amiss, beloved friend, if I wear this piece of crape till then.”.
The isolation is a mutual act, for he admits, “This dismal shade must separate me from the world; even you, Elizabeth, can never come behind it.” If therefore she rejects him as a husband, he ...
The Scarlet Letter (Chap. 23) Lyrics. XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER. The eloquent voice, on which the souls of the listening audience had been borne aloft as on the swelling waves of ...
The Scarlet Letter (Chap. 8) Lyrics. VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER. Governor Bellingham, in a loose gown and easy cap—such as elderly gentlemen loved to endue themselves with, in their ...
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“Hester Prynne,” said the clergyman, “I have striven with my young brother here, under whose preaching of the Word you have been privileged to sit”—here Mr. Wilson laid his hand on the shoulder of a pale young man beside him—“I have sought, I say, to persuade this godly youth, that he should deal with you, here in the face of ...
All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees. The objects that had made a shadow hitherto, embodied the brightness now.
