hester prynne

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

"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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

"It has avenged thee! " answered Hester Prynne.

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

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

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

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

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

Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.

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

Dost thou know me so little, Hester Prynne?

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

Aha! we know what that means, Hester Prynne!

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

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

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

So powerful seemed the minister's appeal, that the people could not believe but that Hester Prynne would speak out the guilty name;

On the character of Hester Prynne and Jane Eyre