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Before
Hester
Prynne
could
call
together
her
thoughts
,
and
consider
what
was
practicable
to
be
done
in
this
new
and
startling
aspect
of
affairs
,
the
sound
of
military
music
was
heard
approaching
along
a
contiguous
street
.
It
denoted
the
advance
of
the
procession
of
magistrates
and
citizens
on
its
way
towards
the
meeting-house
:
where
,
in
compliance
with
a
custom
thus
early
established
,
and
ever
since
observed
,
the
Reverend
Mr.
Dimmesdale
was
to
deliver
an
Election
Sermon
.
Soon
the
head
of
the
procession
showed
itself
,
with
a
slow
and
stately
march
,
turning
a
corner
,
and
making
its
way
across
the
market-place
.
First
came
the
music
.
It
comprised
a
variety
of
instruments
,
perhaps
imperfectly
adapted
to
one
another
,
and
played
with
no
great
skill
;
but
yet
attaining
the
great
object
for
which
the
harmony
of
drum
and
clarion
addresses
itself
to
the
multitude
--
that
of
imparting
a
higher
and
more
heroic
air
to
the
scene
of
life
that
passes
before
the
eye
.
Little
Pearl
at
first
clapped
her
hands
,
but
then
lost
for
an
instant
the
restless
agitation
that
had
kept
her
in
a
continual
effervescence
throughout
the
morning
;
she
gazed
silently
,
and
seemed
to
be
borne
upward
like
a
floating
sea-bird
on
the
long
heaves
and
swells
of
sound
.
But
she
was
brought
back
to
her
former
mood
by
the
shimmer
of
the
sunshine
on
the
weapons
and
bright
armour
of
the
military
company
,
which
followed
after
the
music
,
and
formed
the
honorary
escort
of
the
procession
.
This
body
of
soldiery
--
which
still
sustains
a
corporate
existence
,
and
marches
down
from
past
ages
with
an
ancient
and
honourable
fame
--
was
composed
of
no
mercenary
materials
.
Its
ranks
were
filled
with
gentlemen
who
felt
the
stirrings
of
martial
impulse
,
and
sought
to
establish
a
kind
of
College
of
Arms
,
where
,
as
in
an
association
of
Knights
Templars
,
they
might
learn
the
science
,
and
,
so
far
as
peaceful
exercise
would
teach
them
,
the
practices
of
war
.
The
high
estimation
then
placed
upon
the
military
character
might
be
seen
in
the
lofty
port
of
each
individual
member
of
the
company
.
Some
of
them
,
indeed
,
by
their
services
in
the
Low
Countries
and
on
other
fields
of
European
warfare
,
had
fairly
won
their
title
to
assume
the
name
and
pomp
of
soldiership
.
The
entire
array
,
moreover
,
clad
in
burnished
steel
,
and
with
plumage
nodding
over
their
bright
morions
,
had
a
brilliancy
of
effect
which
no
modern
display
can
aspire
to
equal
.
And
yet
the
men
of
civil
eminence
,
who
came
immediately
behind
the
military
escort
,
were
better
worth
a
thoughtful
observer
's
eye
.
Even
in
outward
demeanour
they
showed
a
stamp
of
majesty
that
made
the
warrior
's
haughty
stride
look
vulgar
,
if
not
absurd
.
It
was
an
age
when
what
we
call
talent
had
far
less
consideration
than
now
,
but
the
massive
materials
which
produce
stability
and
dignity
of
character
a
great
deal
more
.
The
people
possessed
by
hereditary
right
the
quality
of
reverence
,
which
,
in
their
descendants
,
if
it
survive
at
all
,
exists
in
smaller
proportion
,
and
with
a
vastly
diminished
force
in
the
selection
and
estimate
of
public
men
.
The
change
may
be
for
good
or
ill
,
and
is
partly
,
perhaps
,
for
both
.
In
that
old
day
the
English
settler
on
these
rude
shores
--
having
left
king
,
nobles
,
and
all
degrees
of
awful
rank
behind
,
while
still
the
faculty
and
necessity
of
reverence
was
strong
in
him
--
bestowed
it
on
the
white
hair
and
venerable
brow
of
age
--
on
long-tried
integrity
--
on
solid
wisdom
and
sad-coloured
experience
--
on
endowments
of
that
grave
and
weighty
order
which
gave
the
idea
of
permanence
,
and
comes
under
the
general
definition
of
respectability
.
These
primitive
statesmen
,
therefore
--
Bradstreet
,
Endicott
,
Dudley
,
Bellingham
,
and
their
compeers
--
who
were
elevated
to
power
by
the
early
choice
of
the
people
,
seem
to
have
been
not
often
brilliant
,
but
distinguished
by
a
ponderous
sobriety
,
rather
than
activity
of
intellect
.
They
had
fortitude
and
self-reliance
,
and
in
time
of
difficulty
or
peril
stood
up
for
the
welfare
of
the
state
like
a
line
of
cliffs
against
a
tempestuous
tide
.
The
traits
of
character
here
indicated
were
well
represented
in
the
square
cast
of
countenance
and
large
physical
development
of
the
new
colonial
magistrates
.
So
far
as
a
demeanour
of
natural
authority
was
concerned
,
the
mother
country
need
not
have
been
ashamed
to
see
these
foremost
men
of
an
actual
democracy
adopted
into
the
House
of
Peers
,
or
make
the
Privy
Council
of
the
Sovereign
.
Next
in
order
to
the
magistrates
came
the
young
and
eminently
distinguished
divine
,
from
whose
lips
the
religious
discourse
of
the
anniversary
was
expected
.
His
was
the
profession
at
that
era
in
which
intellectual
ability
displayed
itself
far
more
than
in
political
life
;
for
--
leaving
a
higher
motive
out
of
the
question
it
offered
inducements
powerful
enough
in
the
almost
worshipping
respect
of
the
community
,
to
win
the
most
aspiring
ambition
into
its
service
.
Even
political
power
--
as
in
the
case
of
Increase
Mather
--
was
within
the
grasp
of
a
successful
priest
.
It
was
the
observation
of
those
who
beheld
him
now
,
that
never
,
since
Mr.
Dimmesdale
first
set
his
foot
on
the
New
England
shore
,
had
he
exhibited
such
energy
as
was
seen
in
the
gait
and
air
with
which
he
kept
his
pace
in
the
procession
.
There
was
no
feebleness
of
step
as
at
other
times
;
his
frame
was
not
bent
,
nor
did
his
hand
rest
ominously
upon
his
heart
.
Yet
,
if
the
clergyman
were
rightly
viewed
,
his
strength
seemed
not
of
the
body
.
It
might
be
spiritual
and
imparted
to
him
by
angelical
ministrations
.
It
might
be
the
exhilaration
of
that
potent
cordial
which
is
distilled
only
in
the
furnace-glow
of
earnest
and
long-continued
thought
.
Or
perchance
his
sensitive
temperament
was
invigorated
by
the
loud
and
piercing
music
that
swelled
heaven-ward
,
and
uplifted
him
on
its
ascending
wave
.
Nevertheless
,
so
abstracted
was
his
look
,
it
might
be
questioned
whether
Mr.
Dimmesdale
ever
heard
the
music
.
There
was
his
body
,
moving
onward
,
and
with
an
unaccustomed
force
.
But
where
was
his
mind
?
Far
and
deep
in
its
own
region
,
busying
itself
,
with
preternatural
activity
,
to
marshal
a
procession
of
stately
thoughts
that
were
soon
to
issue
thence
;
and
so
he
saw
nothing
,
heard
nothing
,
knew
nothing
of
what
was
around
him
;
but
the
spiritual
element
took
up
the
feeble
frame
and
carried
it
along
,
unconscious
of
the
burden
,
and
converting
it
to
spirit
like
itself
.
Men
of
uncommon
intellect
,
who
have
grown
morbid
,
possess
this
occasional
power
of
mighty
effort
,
into
which
they
throw
the
life
of
many
days
and
then
are
lifeless
for
as
many
more
.
Hester
Prynne
,
gazing
steadfastly
at
the
clergyman
,
felt
a
dreary
influence
come
over
her
,
but
wherefore
or
whence
she
knew
not
,
unless
that
he
seemed
so
remote
from
her
own
sphere
,
and
utterly
beyond
her
reach
.
One
glance
of
recognition
she
had
imagined
must
needs
pass
between
them
.
She
thought
of
the
dim
forest
,
with
its
little
dell
of
solitude
,
and
love
,
and
anguish
,
and
the
mossy
tree-trunk
,
where
,
sitting
hand-in-hand
,
they
had
mingled
their
sad
and
passionate
talk
with
the
melancholy
murmur
of
the
brook
.
