Hester

As he spoke, he laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's *, as if it had been red-hot.

To Hester Prynne it might have been a mode of expressing, and therefore soothing, the passion of her life.

Had the forest still kept its gloom, it would have been bright in Hester's eyes, and bright in Arthur Dimmesdale's!

Is Hester Prynne the less miserable, think you, for that scarlet letter on her breast?

Aunt Hester thought that it would be nice for him to work, if he were quite sure not to lose by it.

If Hester did his job inside a Perspex box on top of the Gherkin for a year, this entire argument might never have happened.

"What shall I say? " thought Hester to herself. "No! If this be the price of the child's sympathy , I cannot pay it. "

But there was a more real life for Hester Prynne, here, in New England, that in that unknown region where Pearl had found a home.

when the child was asleep, Hester had never felt a moment's safety: not a moment's calm enjoyment of her.

and only in consequence of that identity had Hester contrived so perfectly to represent the scarlet letter in her appearance.

IN her lATe singular interview with Mr. Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne was shocked AT the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.

"Yes; now I will! " answered the child, bounding across the brook, and clasping Hester in her arms.

All this enmity and passion had Pearl inherited, by inalienable right, out of Hester's heart.

Meanwhile Hester Prynne was standing beside the scaffold of the pillory , with the scarlet letter still burning on her breast!

In all the seven bygone years, Hester Prynne had never before been false to the symbol on her bosom.

Hester looked at him with the thrill of another joy.

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It's easy to find that Hester's thought is full of religious mistrial atmosphere and fatalism.

Not to hide the truth, Mistress Hester, my thoughts happen just now to be busy with the gentleman.

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SLOWLY as the minister walked, he had almost gone by, before Hester Prynne could gather voice enough to attract his observation.

Hester next gathered up the heavy tresses of her hair, and confined them beneath her cap.

It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwonted jollity that brightened the faces of the people.

There was both truth and error in the impression; the child and mother were estranged, but through Hester's fault, not Pearl's.

And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison.

And we'll eat it back in Hester Gray's garden . . . I suppose Hester Gray's garden is still there?

"It had been better so! " said Hester Prynne.

For Hester Prynne's sake, then, and no less for the poor child's sake, let us leave them as Providence hath seen fit to place them!

Hester Prynne commits adultery and is forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" on her breast.

The minister had inquired of Hester, with no little interest, the precise time AT which the vessel might be expected to depart.

inquired Hester, troubled at the expression of his eyes.

"I do forgive you, Hester, " replied the minister, at length, with a deep utterance, out of an abyss of sadness, but no anger.

"Heaven would show mercy, " rejoined Hester, "hadst thou but the strength to take advantage of it. "

"Hester, " said he, "come hither! Come, my little Pearl! "

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For all these reasons, Hester never though of meeting him in any narrower privacy than beneath the open sky.

On my life, Hester, I made my entreaty to the worshipful magistrate that it might be done forthwith.

"Thou art crushed under this seven years' weight of misery, " replied Hester, fervently resolved to buoy him up with her own energy.

"Hearken unto me, Hester Prynne! " said the voice.

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Hester partly raised him, and supported his head against her bosom.

"Hester, " said he, "hast thou found peace? "

AT his arrival in the market-place, and some time before she saw him, the stranger had bent his eyes on Hester Prynne.

"Never! " replied Hester Prynne, looking, not at Mr. Wilson, but into the deep and troubled eyes of the younger clergyman.

Judy: Hester is a very tough woman. She protects her love at the cost of being charged with adultery.

Many a time afterwards had Hester been tortured, though less vividly, by the same illusion.

By no means! But that first object of which Pearl seemed to become aware was- shall we say it? - the scarlet letter on Hester's bosom!

The witnesses of Hester Prynne's disgrace had not yet passed beyond their simplicity.

Couldst thou surely tell, Hester, whether he was the same man that encountered thee on the forest-path?

Will it please you, therefore, to tell me of Hester Prynne's- have I her name rightly?

But Hester ought long ago to have done with this injustice.

Methought the germ of it was dead in me! O Hester, thou art my better angel!

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"It was myself! " cried Hester, shuddering . "It was I, not less than he. Why hast thou not avenged thyself on me? "

"Thy acts are like mercy, " said Hester, bewildered and appalled . "But thy words interpret thee as a terror! "

"They know each other well, indeed, " replied Hester, with a mien of calmness, though in the utmost consternation.

In order to support her daughter Pearl, Hester can only live in the suburbs with her cabin in a living by embroidery.

The scarlet letter burned on Hester Prynne's bosom. Here was another ruin, the responsibility of which came partly home to her.

Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression.

it lies not in the pleasure of the magistrates to take off this badge . " calmly replied hester" .

For, Hester, his spirit lacked the strength that could have borne up, as thine has, beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter.

They have been selling outdoors at the new Hester Street Fair, and handed out mini-paletas to children to draw their parents in.

And finally, after traversing a little wood glen full of toadstools, they found Hester Gray's garden.

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"God gave her into my keeping, " repeated Hester Prynne, raising her voice almost to a shriek.

"Thou shalt forgive me! " cried Hester, flinging herself on the fallen leaves beside him. "Let God punish! Thou shalt forgive! "

She constantly presses Hester to tell her where she came from.

"Thou wilt go! " said Hester calmly, as he met her glance.

After a while, the minister fixed his eyes on Hester Prynne's.

"Is the worshipful Governor Bellingham within? " inquired Hester.

"Thou must dwell no longer with this man, " said Hester, slowly and firmly.

"Yes, Hester; but only under the fallen leaves! " replied the minister, with a sad smile.

Or, if this be the path to a better life, as Hester would persuade me, I surely give up no fairer prospect by pursuing it!

Hester would not set him free, lest he should look her sternly in the face.

answered Hester, with a triumphant smile.

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answered Hester, turning pale as death, but responding to this voice, which she too surely recognized.

But the frown of this pale, weak, sinful, and sorrow-stricken man was what Hester could not bear, and live!

Chillingworth, as a common enemy of Hester and Dimmesdale , is a symbol of evil in religious society.

"Come, dearest child! " said Hester encouragingly, and stretching out both her arms.

"It has avenged thee! " answered Hester Prynne.

These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness .

Never, since her release from prison, had Hester met the public gaze without her.

"Thou strange child, why dost thou not come to me? " exclaimed Hester.

"All this, and more, " said Hester.

Hester shows her inner feelings of ambivalent attitude to the Puritan beliefs.

Whom, but the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, half frozen to death, overwhelmed with shame, and standing where Hester Prynne had stood!

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The affair being so satisfactorily concluded, Hester Prynne, with Pearl, departed from the house.

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"Whence come you, Hester? " asked the minister. "What sent you hither? "

whispered the old lady, confidentially, to Hester.

"Then there is the broad pathway of the sea! " continued Hester.

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"Go now, child, and thou shalt tease me as thou wilt another time, " cried Hester Prynne.

Hester from a poor but well-bred English family, full of pride and self-esteem.

What does Stephen Hester do in his office? Pull levers?

Clad in black and speaking Chinese, the three men entered a mah-jongg parlor hidden in a building on Hester Street in Chinatown.

"Fie, woman, fie! " cried the old lady, shaking her finger at Hester.

And so, Hester, I drew thee into my heart, into its innermost chamber, and sought to warm thee by the warmth which thy presence made there!

When Hester went to town to sell embroidery, people are the same as the God of Plague hide dodging her.

"Let us not look back, " answered Hester Prynne.

There stood Hester, holding little Pearl by the hand!

But Hester earned his wage, we're told, because he does an incredibly difficult job.

Come along, Madam Hester, and show your scarlet letter in the market-place!

Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.

"Didst thou ever awake, and find thy mother gone? " asked Hester.

More misery, Hester! - only the more misery!

Hester comforted and counselled them, as best she might.

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"Better he had died at once! " said Hester Prynne.

"Hush, Hester! " said Arthur Dimmesdale, rising from the ground.

"You wrong yourself in this, " said Hester gently.

"Not now, dear child, " answered Hester.

Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.

inquired Hester, shrinking, she hardly knew why, from this secret bond.

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Dost thou remember me, Hester, as I was nine years agone?

Lonely AS wAS Hester's situation, and without a friend on earth who dared to show himself, she, however, incurred no risk of want.

"Bring it hither! " said Hester.

Above all, the warfare of Hester's spirit, at that epoch, was perpetuated in Pearl.

He bids you look again at Hester's scarlet letter!

Dost thou know me so little, Hester Prynne?

Hester is then led back to prison.

It is our Hester- the town's own Hester- who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!

But, Hester, the man lives who has wronged us both!

"Nor ever will, my child, I hope, " said Hester.

"What mean you? " inquired Hester, startled more than she permitted to appear. "Have you another passenger? "

Think for me, Hester!

But the unreasonable and rigid Puritanism makes Hester have a feeling to some extent of Puritanism as being intolerant and cruel.

"Pearl! Little Pearl! " cried he, after a moment's pause; then, suppressing his voice- "Hester! Hester Prynne! Are you there? "

Hester's first motion had been to cover her bosom with her clasped hands.

Aha! we know what that means, Hester Prynne!

and is it Mistress Hester that has a word for old Roger Chillingworth?

"I will keep thy secret, as I have his, " said Hester.

To say the truth, there was much need of professional assistance, not merely for Hester herself, but still more urgently for the child;

Happy are you, Hester that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom!

For, Hester, I am a dying man.

Hester turned again towards Pearl, with a crimson blush upon her cheek, a conscious glance aside at the clergyman, and then a heavy sigh;

While Hester stood in that magic circle of ignominy, where the cunning cruelty of her sentence seemed to have fixed her FOR ever,

Hester had often fancied that Providence had a design of justice and retribution, in endowing the child with this marked propensity;

Yet these thoughts affected Hester Prynne less with hope than apprehension. She knew that her deed had been evil;

said hester , with the tears , gushing into her eyes

"Madam, I know not of what you speak, " answered Hester Prynne, feeling Mistress Hibbins to be of infirm mind;

Who is that man, Hester?

He looked now more careworn and emaciated than as we described him at the scene of Hester's public ignominy;

They beheld the minister, leaning on Hester's shoulder, and supported by her arm around him, approach the scaffold, and ascend its steps;

Then, gasping for breath, DID Hester Prynne clutch the fatal token, instinctively endeavouring to tear it away;

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