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She
may
be
strange
and
shy
at
first
,
but
will
soon
learn
to
love
thee
!
"
By
this
time
Pearl
had
reached
the
margin
of
the
brook
,
and
stood
on
the
further
side
,
gazing
silently
at
Hester
and
the
clergyman
,
who
still
sat
together
on
the
mossy
tree-trunk
waiting
to
receive
her
.
Just
where
she
had
paused
,
the
brook
chanced
to
form
a
pool
so
smooth
and
quiet
that
it
reflected
a
perfect
image
of
her
little
figure
,
with
all
the
brilliant
picturesqueness
of
her
beauty
,
in
its
adornment
of
flowers
and
wreathed
foliage
,
but
more
refined
and
spiritualized
than
the
reality
.
This
image
,
so
nearly
identical
with
the
living
Pearl
,
seemed
to
communicate
somewhat
of
its
own
shadowy
and
intangible
quality
to
the
child
herself
.
It
was
strange
,
the
way
in
which
Pearl
stood
,
looking
so
steadfastly
at
them
through
the
dim
medium
of
the
forest
gloom
,
herself
,
meanwhile
,
all
glorified
with
a
ray
of
sunshine
,
that
was
attracted
thitherward
as
by
a
certain
sympathy
.
In
the
brook
beneath
stood
another
child
--
another
and
the
same
--
with
likewise
its
ray
of
golden
light
.
Hester
felt
herself
,
in
some
indistinct
and
tantalizing
manner
,
estranged
from
Pearl
,
as
if
the
child
,
in
her
lonely
ramble
through
the
forest
,
had
strayed
out
of
the
sphere
in
which
she
and
her
mother
dwelt
together
,
and
was
now
vainly
seeking
to
return
to
it
.
There
were
both
truth
and
error
in
the
impression
;
the
child
and
mother
were
estranged
,
but
through
Hester
's
fault
,
not
Pearl
's
.
Since
the
latter
rambled
from
her
side
,
another
inmate
had
been
admitted
within
the
circle
of
the
mother
's
feelings
,
and
so
modified
the
aspect
of
them
all
,
that
Pearl
,
the
returning
wanderer
,
could
not
find
her
wonted
place
,
and
hardly
knew
where
she
was
.
"
I
have
a
strange
fancy
,
"
observed
the
sensitive
minister
,
"
that
this
brook
is
the
boundary
between
two
worlds
,
and
that
thou
canst
never
meet
thy
Pearl
again
.
Or
is
she
an
elfish
spirit
,
who
,
as
the
legends
of
our
childhood
taught
us
,
is
forbidden
to
cross
a
running
stream
?
Pray
hasten
her
,
for
this
delay
has
already
imparted
a
tremor
to
my
nerves
.
"
"
Come
,
dearest
child
!
"
said
Hester
encouragingly
,
and
stretching
out
both
her
arms
.
"
How
slow
thou
art
!
When
hast
thou
been
so
sluggish
before
now
?
Here
is
a
friend
of
mine
,
who
must
be
thy
friend
also
.
Thou
wilt
have
twice
as
much
love
henceforward
as
thy
mother
alone
could
give
thee
!
Leap
across
the
brook
and
come
to
us
.
Thou
canst
leap
like
a
young
deer
!
"
Pearl
,
without
responding
in
any
manner
to
these
honey-sweet
expressions
,
remained
on
the
other
side
of
the
brook
.
Now
she
fixed
her
bright
wild
eyes
on
her
mother
,
now
on
the
minister
,
and
now
included
them
both
in
the
same
glance
,
as
if
to
detect
and
explain
to
herself
the
relation
which
they
bore
to
one
another
.
For
some
unaccountable
reason
,
as
Arthur
Dimmesdale
felt
the
child
's
eyes
upon
himself
,
his
hand
--
with
that
gesture
so
habitual
as
to
have
become
involuntary
--
stole
over
his
heart
.
At
length
,
assuming
a
singular
air
of
authority
,
Pearl
stretched
out
her
hand
,
with
the
small
forefinger
extended
,
and
pointing
evidently
towards
her
mother
's
breast
.
And
beneath
,
in
the
mirror
of
the
brook
,
there
was
the
flower-girdled
and
sunny
image
of
little
Pearl
,
pointing
her
small
forefinger
too
.
"
Thou
strange
child
!
why
dost
thou
not
come
to
me
?
"
exclaimed
Hester
.
Pearl
still
pointed
with
her
forefinger
,
and
a
frown
gathered
on
her
brow
--
the
more
impressive
from
the
childish
,
the
almost
baby-like
aspect
of
the
features
that
conveyed
it
.
As
her
mother
still
kept
beckoning
to
her
,
and
arraying
her
face
in
a
holiday
suit
of
unaccustomed
smiles
,
the
child
stamped
her
foot
with
a
yet
more
imperious
look
and
gesture
.
In
the
brook
,
again
,
was
the
fantastic
beauty
of
the
image
,
with
its
reflected
frown
,
its
pointed
finger
,
and
imperious
gesture
,
giving
emphasis
to
the
aspect
of
little
Pearl
.
