The scarlet letter barnes and noble7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Her matronly fame was trodden under all men’s feet. There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given color to their lifetime and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.” The world had been so cheerless! My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. “Up to that epoch of my life, I had lived in vain. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. She took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbours. XXIII - The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter THE WORLD OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AND THE SCARLET LETTER ![]()
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