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Would
it
be
beyond
a
philosopher
's
research
,
think
ye
,
gentlemen
,
to
analyse
that
child
's
nature
,
and
,
from
it
make
a
mould
,
to
give
a
shrewd
guess
at
the
father
?
"
"
Nay
;
it
would
be
sinful
,
in
such
a
question
,
to
follow
the
clue
of
profane
philosophy
,
"
said
Mr.
Wilson
.
"
Better
to
fast
and
pray
upon
it
;
and
still
better
,
it
may
be
,
to
leave
the
mystery
as
we
find
it
,
unless
Providence
reveal
it
of
its
own
accord
Thereby
,
every
good
Christian
man
hath
a
title
to
show
a
father
's
kindness
towards
the
poor
,
deserted
babe
.
"
The
affair
being
so
satisfactorily
concluded
,
Hester
Prynne
,
with
Pearl
,
departed
from
the
house
.
As
they
descended
the
steps
,
it
is
averred
that
the
lattice
of
a
chamber-window
was
thrown
open
,
and
forth
into
the
sunny
day
was
thrust
the
face
of
Mistress
Hibbins
,
Governor
Bellingham
's
bitter-tempered
sister
,
and
the
same
who
,
a
few
years
later
,
was
executed
as
a
witch
.
"
Hist
,
hist
!
"
said
she
,
while
her
ill-omened
physiognomy
seemed
to
cast
a
shadow
over
the
cheerful
newness
of
the
house
.
"
Wilt
thou
go
with
us
to-night
?
There
will
be
a
merry
company
in
the
forest
;
and
I
well-nigh
promised
the
Black
Man
that
comely
Hester
Prynne
should
make
one
.
"
"
Make
my
excuse
to
him
,
so
please
you
!
"
answered
Hester
,
with
a
triumphant
smile
.
"
I
must
tarry
at
home
,
and
keep
watch
over
my
little
Pearl
Had
they
taken
her
from
me
,
I
would
willingly
have
gone
with
thee
into
the
forest
,
and
signed
my
name
in
the
Black
Man
's
book
too
,
and
that
with
mine
own
blood
!
"
"
We
shall
have
thee
there
anon
!
"
said
the
witch-lady
,
frowning
,
as
she
drew
back
her
head
.
But
here
--
if
we
suppose
this
interview
betwixt
Mistress
Hibbins
and
Hester
Prynne
to
be
authentic
,
and
not
a
parable
--
was
already
an
illustration
of
the
young
minister
's
argument
against
sundering
the
relation
of
a
fallen
mother
to
the
offspring
of
her
frailty
.
Even
thus
early
had
the
child
saved
her
from
Satan
's
snare
.
Under
the
appellation
of
Roger
Chillingworth
,
the
reader
will
remember
,
was
hidden
another
name
,
which
its
former
wearer
had
resolved
should
never
more
be
spoken
.
It
has
been
related
,
how
,
in
the
crowd
that
witnessed
Hester
Prynne
's
ignominious
exposure
,
stood
a
man
,
elderly
,
travel-worn
,
who
,
just
emerging
from
the
perilous
wilderness
,
beheld
the
woman
,
in
whom
he
hoped
to
find
embodied
the
warmth
and
cheerfulness
of
home
,
set
up
as
a
type
of
sin
before
the
people
.
Her
matronly
fame
was
trodden
under
all
men
's
feet
.
Infamy
was
babbling
around
her
in
the
public
market-place
.
For
her
kindred
,
should
the
tidings
ever
reach
them
,
and
for
the
companions
of
her
unspotted
life
,
there
remained
nothing
but
the
contagion
of
her
dishonour
;
which
would
not
fail
to
be
distributed
in
strict
accordance
arid
proportion
with
the
intimacy
and
sacredness
of
their
previous
relationship
.
Then
why
--
since
the
choice
was
with
himself
--
should
the
individual
,
whose
connexion
with
the
fallen
woman
had
been
the
most
intimate
and
sacred
of
them
all
,
come
forward
to
vindicate
his
claim
to
an
inheritance
so
little
desirable
?
He
resolved
not
to
be
pilloried
beside
her
on
her
pedestal
of
shame
.
Unknown
to
all
but
Hester
Prynne
,
and
possessing
the
lock
and
key
of
her
silence
,
he
chose
to
withdraw
his
name
from
the
roll
of
mankind
,
and
,
as
regarded
his
former
ties
and
interest
,
to
vanish
out
of
life
as
completely
as
if
he
indeed
lay
at
the
bottom
of
the
ocean
,
whither
rumour
had
long
ago
consigned
him
.
This
purpose
once
effected
,
new
interests
would
immediately
spring
up
,
and
likewise
a
new
purpose
;
dark
,
it
is
true
,
if
not
guilty
,
but
of
force
enough
to
engage
the
full
strength
of
his
faculties
.
