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V. Hester at Her Needle. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. 1850. The Scarlet Letter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | She had in her nature a rich, voluptuous, Oriental characteristic,a taste for the gorgeously beautiful, which, save in the exquisite productions of her needle, found nothing else, in all the possibilities of her life, to exercise itself upon. |
 | | O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?Such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin. |
 | | Be it accepted as a proof that all was not corrupt in this poor victim of her own frailty, and mans hard law, that Hester Prynne yet struggled to believe that no fellow-mortal was guilty like herself. |
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