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"
Yea
,
forsooth
,
"
replied
the
bond-servant
,
staring
with
wide-open
eyes
at
the
scarlet
letter
,
which
,
being
a
new-comer
in
the
country
,
he
had
never
before
seen
.
"
Yea
,
his
honourable
worship
is
within
.
But
he
hath
a
godly
minister
or
two
with
him
,
and
likewise
a
leech
.
Ye
may
not
see
his
worship
now
.
"
"
Nevertheless
,
I
will
enter
,
"
answered
Hester
Prynne
;
and
the
bond-servant
,
perhaps
judging
from
the
decision
of
her
air
,
and
the
glittering
symbol
in
her
bosom
,
that
she
was
a
great
lady
in
the
land
,
offered
no
opposition
.
So
the
mother
and
little
Pearl
were
admitted
into
the
hall
of
entrance
.
With
many
variations
,
suggested
by
the
nature
of
his
building
materials
,
diversity
of
climate
,
and
a
different
mode
of
social
life
,
Governor
Bellingham
had
planned
his
new
habitation
after
the
residences
of
gentlemen
of
fair
estate
in
his
native
land
.
Here
,
then
,
was
a
wide
and
reasonably
lofty
hall
,
extending
through
the
whole
depth
of
the
house
,
and
forming
a
medium
of
general
communication
,
more
or
less
directly
,
with
all
the
other
apartments
.
At
one
extremity
,
this
spacious
room
was
lighted
by
the
windows
of
the
two
towers
,
which
formed
a
small
recess
on
either
side
of
the
portal
.
At
the
other
end
,
though
partly
muffled
by
a
curtain
,
it
was
more
powerfully
illuminated
by
one
of
those
embowed
hall
windows
which
we
read
of
in
old
books
,
and
which
was
provided
with
a
deep
and
cushion
seat
.
Here
,
on
the
cushion
,
lay
a
folio
tome
,
probably
of
the
Chronicles
of
England
,
or
other
such
substantial
literature
;
even
as
,
in
our
own
days
,
we
scatter
gilded
volumes
on
the
centre
table
,
to
be
turned
over
by
the
casual
guest
.
The
furniture
of
the
hall
consisted
of
some
ponderous
chairs
,
the
backs
of
which
were
elaborately
carved
with
wreaths
of
oaken
flowers
;
and
likewise
a
table
in
the
same
taste
,
the
whole
being
of
the
Elizabethan
age
,
or
perhaps
earlier
,
and
heirlooms
,
transferred
hither
from
the
Governor
's
paternal
home
.
On
the
table
--
in
token
that
the
sentiment
of
old
English
hospitality
had
not
been
left
behind
--
stood
a
large
pewter
tankard
,
at
the
bottom
of
which
,
had
Hester
or
Pearl
peeped
into
it
,
they
might
have
seen
the
frothy
remnant
of
a
recent
draught
of
ale
.
On
the
wall
hung
a
row
of
portraits
,
representing
the
forefathers
of
the
Bellingham
lineage
,
some
with
armour
on
their
breasts
,
and
others
with
stately
ruffs
and
robes
of
peace
.
All
were
characterised
by
the
sternness
and
severity
which
old
portraits
so
invariably
put
on
,
as
if
they
were
the
ghosts
,
rather
than
the
pictures
,
of
departed
worthies
,
and
were
gazing
with
harsh
and
intolerant
criticism
at
the
pursuits
and
enjoyments
of
living
men
.
At
about
the
centre
of
the
oaken
panels
that
lined
the
hall
was
suspended
a
suit
of
mail
,
not
,
like
the
pictures
,
an
ancestral
relic
,
but
of
the
most
modern
date
;
for
it
had
been
manufactured
by
a
skilful
armourer
in
London
,
the
same
year
in
which
Governor
Bellingham
came
over
to
New
England
.
There
was
a
steel
head-piece
,
a
cuirass
,
a
gorget
and
greaves
,
with
a
pair
of
gauntlets
and
a
sword
hanging
beneath
;
all
,
and
especially
the
helmet
and
breastplate
,
so
highly
burnished
as
to
glow
with
white
radiance
,
and
scatter
an
illumination
everywhere
about
upon
the
floor
.
This
bright
panoply
was
not
meant
for
mere
idle
show
,
but
had
been
worn
by
the
Governor
on
many
a
solemn
muster
and
draining
field
,
and
had
glittered
,
moreover
,
at
the
head
of
a
regiment
in
the
Pequod
war
.
For
,
though
bred
a
lawyer
,
and
accustomed
to
speak
of
Bacon
,
Coke
,
Noye
,
and
Finch
,
as
his
professional
associates
,
the
exigenties
of
this
new
country
had
transformed
Governor
Bellingham
into
a
soldier
,
as
well
as
a
statesman
and
ruler
.
Little
Pearl
,
who
was
as
greatly
pleased
with
the
gleaming
armour
as
she
had
been
with
the
glittering
frontispiece
of
the
house
,
spent
some
time
looking
into
the
polished
mirror
of
the
breastplate
.
"
Mother
,
"
cried
she
,
"
I
see
you
here
.
Look
!
look
!
"
Hester
looked
by
way
of
humouring
the
child
;
and
she
saw
that
,
owing
to
the
peculiar
effect
of
this
convex
mirror
,
the
scarlet
letter
was
represented
in
exaggerated
and
gigantic
proportions
,
so
as
to
be
greatly
the
most
prominent
feature
of
her
appearance
.
In
truth
,
she
seemed
absolutely
hidden
behind
it
.
Pearl
pointed
upwards
also
,
at
a
similar
picture
in
the
head-piece
;
smiling
at
her
mother
,
with
the
elfish
intelligence
that
was
so
familiar
an
expression
on
her
small
physiognomy
.
That
look
of
naughty
merriment
was
likewise
reflected
in
the
mirror
,
with
so
much
breadth
and
intensity
of
effect
,
that
it
made
Hester
Prynne
feel
as
if
it
could
not
be
the
image
of
her
own
child
,
but
of
an
imp
who
was
seeking
to
mould
itself
into
Pearl
's
shape
.
"
Come
along
,
Pearl
,
"
said
she
,
drawing
her
away
,
"
Come
and
look
into
this
fair
garden
.
It
may
be
we
shall
see
flowers
there
;
more
beautiful
ones
than
we
find
in
the
woods
.
"
