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Thus
the
night
fled
away
,
as
if
it
were
a
winged
steed
,
and
he
careering
on
it
;
morning
came
,
and
peeped
,
blushing
,
through
the
curtains
;
and
at
last
sunrise
threw
a
golden
beam
into
the
study
,
and
laid
it
right
across
the
minister
's
bedazzled
eyes
.
There
he
was
,
with
the
pen
still
between
his
fingers
,
and
a
vast
,
immeasurable
tract
of
written
space
behind
him
!
Betimes
in
the
morning
of
the
day
on
which
the
new
Governor
was
to
receive
his
office
at
the
hands
of
the
people
,
Hester
Prynne
and
little
Pearl
came
into
the
market-place
.
It
was
already
thronged
with
the
craftsmen
and
other
plebeian
inhabitants
of
the
town
,
in
considerable
numbers
,
among
whom
,
likewise
,
were
many
rough
figures
,
whose
attire
of
deer-skins
marked
them
as
belonging
to
some
of
the
forest
settlements
,
which
surrounded
the
little
metropolis
of
the
colony
.
On
this
public
holiday
,
as
on
all
other
occasions
for
seven
years
past
,
Hester
was
clad
in
a
garment
of
coarse
gray
cloth
.
Not
more
by
its
hue
than
by
some
indescribable
peculiarity
in
its
fashion
,
it
had
the
effect
of
making
her
fade
personally
out
of
sight
and
outline
;
while
again
the
scarlet
letter
brought
her
back
from
this
twilight
indistinctness
,
and
revealed
her
under
the
moral
aspect
of
its
own
illumination
.
Her
face
,
so
long
familiar
to
the
townspeople
,
showed
the
marble
quietude
which
they
were
accustomed
to
behold
there
.
It
was
like
a
mask
;
or
,
rather
like
the
frozen
calmness
of
a
dead
woman
's
features
;
owing
this
dreary
resemblance
to
the
fact
that
Hester
was
actually
dead
,
in
respect
to
any
claim
of
sympathy
,
and
had
departed
out
of
the
world
with
which
she
still
seemed
to
mingle
.
It
might
be
,
on
this
one
day
,
that
there
was
an
expression
unseen
before
,
nor
,
indeed
,
vivid
enough
to
be
detected
now
;
unless
some
preternaturally
gifted
observer
should
have
first
read
the
heart
,
and
have
afterwards
sought
a
corresponding
development
in
the
countenance
and
mien
.
Such
a
spiritual
sneer
might
have
conceived
,
that
,
after
sustaining
the
gaze
of
the
multitude
through
several
miserable
years
as
a
necessity
,
a
penance
,
and
something
which
it
was
a
stern
religion
to
endure
,
she
now
,
for
one
last
time
more
,
encountered
it
freely
and
voluntarily
,
in
order
to
convert
what
had
so
long
been
agony
into
a
kind
of
triumph
.
"
Look
your
last
on
the
scarlet
letter
and
its
wearer
!
"
--
the
people
's
victim
and
lifelong
bond-slave
,
as
they
fancied
her
,
might
say
to
them
.
"
Yet
a
little
while
,
and
she
will
be
beyond
your
reach
!
A
few
hours
longer
and
the
deep
,
mysterious
ocean
will
quench
and
hide
for
ever
the
symbol
which
ye
have
caused
to
burn
on
her
bosom
!
"
Nor
were
it
an
inconsistency
too
improbable
to
be
assigned
to
human
nature
,
should
we
suppose
a
feeling
of
regret
in
Hester
's
mind
,
at
the
moment
when
she
was
about
to
win
her
freedom
from
the
pain
which
had
been
thus
deeply
incorporated
with
her
being
.
Might
there
not
be
an
irresistible
desire
to
quaff
a
last
,
long
,
breathless
draught
of
the
cup
of
wormwood
and
aloes
,
with
which
nearly
all
her
years
of
womanhood
had
been
perpetually
flavoured
.
The
wine
of
life
,
henceforth
to
be
presented
to
her
lips
,
must
be
indeed
rich
,
delicious
,
and
exhilarating
,
in
its
chased
and
golden
beaker
,
or
else
leave
an
inevitable
and
weary
languor
,
after
the
lees
of
bitterness
wherewith
she
had
been
drugged
,
as
with
a
cordial
of
intensest
potency
.
Pearl
was
decked
out
with
airy
gaiety
.
It
would
have
been
impossible
to
guess
that
this
bright
and
sunny
apparition
owed
its
existence
to
the
shape
of
gloomy
gray
;
or
that
a
fancy
,
at
once
so
gorgeous
and
so
delicate
as
must
have
been
requisite
to
contrive
the
child
's
apparel
,
was
the
same
that
had
achieved
a
task
perhaps
more
difficult
,
in
imparting
so
distinct
a
peculiarity
to
Hester
's
simple
robe
.
The
dress
,
so
proper
was
it
to
little
Pearl
,
seemed
an
effluence
,
or
inevitable
development
and
outward
manifestation
of
her
character
,
no
more
to
be
separated
from
her
than
the
many-hued
brilliancy
from
a
butterfly
's
wing
,
or
the
painted
glory
from
the
leaf
of
a
bright
flower
.
As
with
these
,
so
with
the
child
;
her
garb
was
all
of
one
idea
with
her
nature
.
On
this
eventful
day
,
moreover
,
there
was
a
certain
singular
inquietude
and
excitement
in
her
mood
,
resembling
nothing
so
much
as
the
shimmer
of
a
diamond
,
that
sparkles
and
flashes
with
the
varied
throbbings
of
the
breast
on
which
it
is
displayed
.
Children
have
always
a
sympathy
in
the
agitations
of
those
connected
with
them
:
always
,
especially
,
a
sense
of
any
trouble
or
impending
revolution
,
of
whatever
kind
,
in
domestic
circumstances
;
and
therefore
Pearl
,
who
was
the
gem
on
her
mother
's
unquiet
bosom
,
betrayed
,
by
the
very
dance
of
her
spirits
,
the
emotions
which
none
could
detect
in
the
marble
passiveness
of
Hester
's
brow
.
This
effervescence
made
her
flit
with
a
bird-like
movement
,
rather
than
walk
by
her
mother
's
side
.
She
broke
continually
into
shouts
of
a
wild
,
inarticulate
,
and
sometimes
piercing
music
.
When
they
reached
the
market-place
,
she
became
still
more
restless
,
on
perceiving
the
stir
and
bustle
that
enlivened
the
spot
;
for
it
was
usually
more
like
the
broad
and
lonesome
green
before
a
village
meeting-house
,
than
the
centre
of
a
town
's
business
