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"
Hush
,
Pearl
,
hush
!
Thou
must
not
talk
so
!
"
answered
the
mother
.
suppressing
a
groan
.
"
He
sent
us
all
into
the
world
.
He
sent
even
me
,
thy
mother
Then
,
much
more
thee
!
Or
,
if
not
,
thou
strange
and
elfish
child
,
whence
didst
thou
come
?
"
"
Tell
me
!
Tell
me
!
"
repeated
Pearl
,
no
longer
seriously
,
but
laughing
and
capering
about
the
floor
.
"
It
is
thou
that
must
tell
me
!
"
But
Hester
could
not
resolve
the
query
,
using
herself
in
a
dismal
labyrinth
of
doubt
.
She
remembered
--
betwixt
a
smile
and
a
shudder
--
the
talk
of
the
neighbouring
townspeople
,
who
,
seeking
vainly
elsewhere
for
the
child
's
paternity
,
and
observing
some
of
her
odd
attributes
,
had
given
out
that
poor
little
Pearl
was
a
demon
offspring
:
such
as
,
ever
since
old
Catholic
times
,
had
occasionally
been
seen
on
earth
,
through
the
agency
of
their
mother
's
sin
,
and
to
promote
some
foul
and
wicked
purpose
.
Luther
,
according
to
the
scandal
of
his
monkish
enemies
,
was
a
brat
of
that
hellish
breed
;
nor
was
Pearl
the
only
child
to
whom
this
inauspicious
origin
was
assigned
among
the
New
England
Puritans
.
Hester
Prynne
went
one
day
to
the
mansion
of
Governor
Bellingham
,
with
a
pair
of
gloves
which
she
had
fringed
and
embroidered
to
his
order
,
and
which
were
to
be
worn
on
some
great
occasion
of
state
;
for
,
though
the
chances
of
a
popular
election
had
caused
this
former
ruler
to
descend
a
step
or
two
from
the
highest
rank
,
he
still
held
an
honourable
and
influential
place
among
the
colonial
magistracy
.
Another
and
far
more
important
reason
than
the
delivery
of
a
pair
of
embroidered
gloves
,
impelled
Hester
,
at
this
time
,
to
seek
an
interview
with
a
personage
of
so
much
power
and
activity
in
the
affairs
of
the
settlement
.
It
had
reached
her
ears
that
there
was
a
design
on
the
part
of
some
of
the
leading
inhabitants
,
cherishing
the
more
rigid
order
of
principles
in
religion
and
government
,
to
deprive
her
of
her
child
.
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
.
If
the
child
,
on
the
other
hand
,
were
really
capable
of
moral
and
religious
growth
,
and
possessed
the
elements
of
ultimate
salvation
,
then
,
surely
,
it
would
enjoy
all
the
fairer
prospect
of
these
advantages
by
being
transferred
to
wiser
and
better
guardianship
than
Hester
Prynne
's
.
Among
those
who
promoted
the
design
,
Governor
Bellingham
was
said
to
be
one
of
the
most
busy
.
It
may
appear
singular
,
and
,
indeed
,
not
a
little
ludicrous
,
that
an
affair
of
this
kind
,
which
in
later
days
would
have
been
referred
to
no
higher
jurisdiction
than
that
of
the
select
men
of
the
town
,
should
then
have
been
a
question
publicly
discussed
,
and
on
which
statesmen
of
eminence
took
sides
.
At
that
epoch
of
pristine
simplicity
,
however
,
matters
of
even
slighter
public
interest
,
and
of
far
less
intrinsic
weight
than
the
welfare
of
Hester
and
her
child
,
were
strangely
mixed
up
with
the
deliberations
of
legislators
and
acts
of
state
.
The
period
was
hardly
,
if
at
all
,
earlier
than
that
of
our
story
,
when
a
dispute
concerning
the
right
of
property
in
a
pig
not
only
caused
a
fierce
and
bitter
contest
in
the
legislative
body
of
the
colony
,
but
resulted
in
an
important
modification
of
the
framework
itself
of
the
legislature
.
Full
of
concern
,
therefore
--
but
so
conscious
of
her
own
right
that
it
seemed
scarcely
an
unequal
match
between
the
public
on
the
one
side
,
and
a
lonely
woman
,
backed
by
the
sympathies
of
nature
,
on
the
other
--
Hester
Prynne
set
forth
from
her
solitary
cottage
.
Little
Pearl
,
of
course
,
was
her
companion
.
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
.
Often
,
nevertheless
,
more
from
caprice
than
necessity
,
she
demanded
to
be
taken
up
in
arms
;
but
was
soon
as
imperious
to
be
let
down
again
,
and
frisked
onward
before
Hester
on
the
grassy
pathway
,
with
many
a
harmless
trip
and
tumble
.
We
have
spoken
of
Pearl
's
rich
and
luxuriant
beauty
--
a
beauty
that
shone
with
deep
and
vivid
tints
,
a
bright
complexion
,
eyes
possessing
intensity
both
of
depth
and
glow
,
and
hair
already
of
a
deep
,
glossy
brown
,
and
which
,
in
after
years
,
would
be
nearly
akin
to
black
.
There
was
fire
in
her
and
throughout
her
:
she
seemed
the
unpremeditated
offshoot
of
a
passionate
moment
.
Her
mother
,
in
contriving
the
child
's
garb
,
had
allowed
the
gorgeous
tendencies
of
her
imagination
their
full
play
,
arraying
her
in
a
crimson
velvet
tunic
of
a
peculiar
cut
,
abundantly
embroidered
in
fantasies
and
flourishes
of
gold
thread
.
So
much
strength
of
colouring
,
which
must
have
given
a
wan
and
pallid
aspect
to
cheeks
of
a
fainter
bloom
,
was
admirably
adapted
to
Pearl
's
beauty
,
and
made
her
the
very
brightest
little
jet
of
flame
that
ever
danced
upon
the
earth
.
But
it
was
a
remarkable
attribute
of
this
garb
,
and
indeed
,
of
the
child
's
whole
appearance
,
that
it
irresistibly
and
inevitably
reminded
the
beholder
of
the
token
which
Hester
Prynne
was
doomed
to
wear
upon
her
bosom
.
It
was
the
scarlet
letter
in
another
form
:
the
scarlet
letter
endowed
with
life
!
The
mother
herself
--
as
if
the
red
ignominy
were
so
deeply
scorched
into
her
brain
that
all
her
conceptions
assumed
its
form
--
had
carefully
wrought
out
the
similitude
,
lavishing
many
hours
of
morbid
ingenuity
to
create
an
analogy
between
the
object
of
her
affection
and
the
emblem
of
her
guilt
and
torture
.
