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Pearl
accordingly
ran
to
the
bow-window
,
at
the
further
end
of
the
hall
,
and
looked
along
the
vista
of
a
garden
walk
,
carpeted
with
closely-shaven
grass
,
and
bordered
with
some
rude
and
immature
attempt
at
shrubbery
But
the
proprietor
appeared
already
to
have
relinquished
as
hopeless
,
the
effort
to
perpetuate
on
this
side
of
the
Atlantic
,
in
a
hard
soil
,
and
amid
the
close
struggle
for
subsistence
,
the
native
English
taste
for
ornamental
gardening
.
Cabbages
grew
in
plain
sight
;
and
a
pumpkin-vine
,
rooted
at
some
distance
,
had
run
across
the
intervening
space
,
and
deposited
one
of
its
gigantic
products
directly
beneath
the
hall
window
,
as
if
to
warn
the
Governor
that
this
great
lump
of
vegetable
gold
was
as
rich
an
ornament
as
New
England
earth
would
offer
him
.
There
were
a
few
rose-bushes
,
however
,
and
a
number
of
apple-trees
,
probably
the
descendants
of
those
planted
by
the
Reverend
Mr.
Blackstone
,
the
first
settler
of
the
peninsula
;
that
half
mythological
personage
who
rides
through
our
early
annals
,
seated
on
the
back
of
a
bull
.
Pearl
,
seeing
the
rose-bushes
,
began
to
cry
for
a
red
rose
,
and
would
not
be
pacified
.
"
Hush
,
child
--
hush
!
"
said
her
mother
,
earnestly
.
"
Do
not
cry
,
dear
little
Pearl
!
I
hear
voices
in
the
garden
.
The
Governor
is
coming
,
and
gentlemen
along
with
him
.
"
In
fact
,
adown
the
vista
of
the
garden
avenue
,
a
number
of
persons
were
seen
approaching
towards
the
house
.
Pearl
,
in
utter
scorn
of
her
mother
's
attempt
to
quiet
her
,
gave
an
eldritch
scream
,
and
then
became
silent
,
not
from
any
motion
of
obedience
,
but
because
the
quick
and
mobile
curiosity
of
her
disposition
was
excited
by
the
appearance
of
those
new
personages
.
Governor
Bellingham
,
in
a
loose
gown
and
easy
cap
--
such
as
elderly
gentlemen
loved
to
endue
themselves
with
,
in
their
domestic
privacy
--
walked
foremost
,
and
appeared
to
be
showing
off
his
estate
,
and
expatiating
on
his
projected
improvements
.
The
wide
circumference
of
an
elaborate
ruff
,
beneath
his
grey
beard
,
in
the
antiquated
fashion
of
King
James
's
reign
,
caused
his
head
to
look
not
a
little
like
that
of
John
the
Baptist
in
a
charger
.
The
impression
made
by
his
aspect
,
so
rigid
and
severe
,
and
frost-bitten
with
more
than
autumnal
age
,
was
hardly
in
keeping
with
the
appliances
of
worldly
enjoyment
wherewith
he
had
evidently
done
his
utmost
to
surround
himself
.
But
it
is
an
error
to
suppose
that
our
great
forefathers
--
though
accustomed
to
speak
and
think
of
human
existence
as
a
state
merely
of
trial
and
warfare
,
and
though
unfeignedly
prepared
to
sacrifice
goods
and
life
at
the
behest
of
duty
--
made
it
a
matter
of
conscience
to
reject
such
means
of
comfort
,
or
even
luxury
,
as
lay
fairly
within
their
grasp
.
This
creed
was
never
taught
,
for
instance
,
by
the
venerable
pastor
,
John
Wilson
,
whose
beard
,
white
as
a
snow-drift
,
was
seen
over
Governor
Bellingham
's
shoulders
,
while
its
wearer
suggested
that
pears
and
peaches
might
yet
be
naturalised
in
the
New
England
climate
,
and
that
purple
grapes
might
possibly
be
compelled
to
flourish
against
the
sunny
garden-wall
.
The
old
clergyman
,
nurtured
at
the
rich
bosom
of
the
English
Church
,
had
a
long
established
and
legitimate
taste
for
all
good
and
comfortable
things
,
and
however
stern
he
might
show
himself
in
the
pulpit
,
or
in
his
public
reproof
of
such
transgressions
as
that
of
Hester
Prynne
,
still
,
the
genial
benevolence
of
his
private
life
had
won
him
warmer
affection
than
was
accorded
to
any
of
his
professional
contemporaries
.
Behind
the
Governor
and
Mr.
Wilson
came
two
other
guests
--
one
,
the
Reverend
Arthur
Dimmesdale
,
whom
the
reader
may
remember
as
having
taken
a
brief
and
reluctant
part
in
the
scene
of
Hester
Prynne
's
disgrace
;
and
,
in
close
companionship
with
him
,
old
Roger
Chillingworth
,
a
person
of
great
skill
in
physic
,
who
for
two
or
three
years
past
had
been
settled
in
the
town
.
It
was
understood
that
this
learned
man
was
the
physician
as
well
as
friend
of
the
young
minister
,
whose
health
had
severely
suffered
of
late
by
his
too
unreserved
self-sacrifice
to
the
labours
and
duties
of
the
pastoral
relation
.
The
Governor
,
in
advance
of
his
visitors
,
ascended
one
or
two
steps
,
and
,
throwing
open
the
leaves
of
the
great
hall
window
,
found
himself
close
to
little
Pearl
.
The
shadow
of
the
curtain
fell
on
Hester
Prynne
,
and
partially
concealed
her
.
"
What
have
we
here
?
"
said
Governor
Bellingham
,
looking
with
surprise
at
the
scarlet
little
figure
before
him
.
