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Little
Pearl
,
meanwhile
,
had
quitted
her
mother
's
side
,
and
was
playing
at
her
own
will
about
the
market-place
.
She
made
the
sombre
crowd
cheerful
by
her
erratic
and
glistening
ray
,
even
as
a
bird
of
bright
plumage
illuminates
a
whole
tree
of
dusky
foliage
by
darting
to
and
fro
,
half
seen
and
half
concealed
amid
the
twilight
of
the
clustering
leaves
.
She
had
an
undulating
,
but
oftentimes
a
sharp
and
irregular
movement
.
It
indicated
the
restless
vivacity
of
her
spirit
,
which
to-day
was
doubly
indefatigable
in
its
tip-toe
dance
,
because
it
was
played
upon
and
vibrated
with
her
mother
's
disquietude
.
Whenever
Pearl
saw
anything
to
excite
her
ever
active
and
wandering
curiosity
,
she
flew
thitherward
,
and
,
as
we
might
say
,
seized
upon
that
man
or
thing
as
her
own
property
,
so
far
as
she
desired
it
,
but
without
yielding
the
minutest
degree
of
control
over
her
motions
in
requital
.
The
Puritans
looked
on
,
and
,
if
they
smiled
,
were
none
the
less
inclined
to
pronounce
the
child
a
demon
offspring
,
from
the
indescribable
charm
of
beauty
and
eccentricity
that
shone
through
her
little
figure
,
and
sparkled
with
its
activity
.
She
ran
and
looked
the
wild
Indian
in
the
face
,
and
he
grew
conscious
of
a
nature
wilder
than
his
own
.
Thence
,
with
native
audacity
,
but
still
with
a
reserve
as
characteristic
,
she
flew
into
the
midst
of
a
group
of
mariners
,
the
swarthy-cheeked
wild
men
of
the
ocean
,
as
the
Indians
were
of
the
land
;
and
they
gazed
wonderingly
and
admiringly
at
Pearl
,
as
if
a
flake
of
the
sea-foam
had
taken
the
shape
of
a
little
maid
,
and
were
gifted
with
a
soul
of
the
sea-fire
,
that
flashes
beneath
the
prow
in
the
night-time
.
One
of
these
seafaring
men
the
shipmaster
,
indeed
,
who
had
spoken
to
Hester
Prynne
was
so
smitten
with
Pearl
's
aspect
,
that
he
attempted
to
lay
hands
upon
her
,
with
purpose
to
snatch
a
kiss
.
Finding
it
as
impossible
to
touch
her
as
to
catch
a
humming-bird
in
the
air
,
he
took
from
his
hat
the
gold
chain
that
was
twisted
about
it
,
and
threw
it
to
the
child
.
Pearl
immediately
twined
it
around
her
neck
and
waist
with
such
happy
skill
,
that
,
once
seen
there
,
it
became
a
part
of
her
,
and
it
was
difficult
to
imagine
her
without
it
.
"
Thy
mother
is
yonder
woman
with
the
scarlet
letter
,
"
said
the
seaman
,
"
Wilt
thou
carry
her
a
message
from
me
?
"
"
If
the
message
pleases
me
,
I
will
,
"
answered
Pearl
.
"
Then
tell
her
,
"
rejoined
he
,
"
that
I
spake
again
with
the
black-a-visaged
,
hump
shouldered
old
doctor
,
and
he
engages
to
bring
his
friend
,
the
gentleman
she
wots
of
,
aboard
with
him
.
So
let
thy
mother
take
no
thought
,
save
for
herself
and
thee
.
Wilt
thou
tell
her
this
,
thou
witch-baby
?
"
"
Mistress
Hibbins
says
my
father
is
the
Prince
of
the
Air
!
"
cried
Pearl
,
with
a
naughty
smile
.
"
If
thou
callest
me
that
ill-name
,
I
shall
tell
him
of
thee
,
and
he
will
chase
thy
ship
with
a
tempest
!
"
Pursuing
a
zigzag
course
across
the
marketplace
,
the
child
returned
to
her
mother
,
and
communicated
what
the
mariner
had
said
.
Hester
's
strong
,
calm
steadfastly-enduring
spirit
almost
sank
,
at
last
,
on
beholding
this
dark
and
grim
countenance
of
an
inevitable
doom
,
which
at
the
moment
when
a
passage
seemed
to
open
for
the
minister
and
herself
out
of
their
labyrinth
of
misery
--
showed
itself
with
an
unrelenting
smile
,
right
in
the
midst
of
their
path
.
With
her
mind
harassed
by
the
terrible
perplexity
in
which
the
shipmaster
's
intelligence
involved
her
,
she
was
also
subjected
to
another
trial
.
There
were
many
people
present
from
the
country
round
about
,
who
had
often
heard
of
the
scarlet
letter
,
and
to
whom
it
had
been
made
terrific
by
a
hundred
false
or
exaggerated
rumours
,
but
who
had
never
beheld
it
with
their
own
bodily
eyes
.
These
,
after
exhausting
other
modes
of
amusement
,
now
thronged
about
Hester
Prynne
with
rude
and
boorish
intrusiveness
.
Unscrupulous
as
it
was
,
however
,
it
could
not
bring
them
nearer
than
a
circuit
of
several
yards
.
At
that
distance
they
accordingly
stood
,
fixed
there
by
the
centrifugal
force
of
the
repugnance
which
the
mystic
symbol
inspired
.
The
whole
gang
of
sailors
,
likewise
,
observing
the
press
of
spectators
,
and
learning
the
purport
of
the
scarlet
letter
,
came
and
thrust
their
sunburnt
and
desperado-looking
faces
into
the
ring
.
Even
the
Indians
were
affected
by
a
sort
of
cold
shadow
of
the
white
man
's
curiosity
and
,
gliding
through
the
crowd
,
fastened
their
snake-like
black
eyes
on
Hester
's
bosom
,
conceiving
,
perhaps
,
that
the
wearer
of
this
brilliantly
embroidered
badge
must
needs
be
a
personage
of
high
dignity
among
her
people
