The Scarlet Letter: A RomanceJohn B. Alden, 1892 - 164 стор. |
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Сторінка 79 - ... to bring his mind into such affinity with his patient's, that this last shall unawares have spoken what he imagines himself only to have thought ; if such revelations be received without tumult, and acknowledged not so often by an uttered sympathy as by silence, an inarticulate breath, and here and there a word, to indicate that all is understood ; if to these qualifications of a confidant be joined the advantages afforded by his recognized character as a physician, — then, at some inevitable...
Сторінка 9 - I know not whether these an cestors of mine bethought themselves to repent and ask pardon of heaven for their cruelties, or whether they are now groaning under the heavy consequences of them in another state of being.
Сторінка 160 - Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken. The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor forever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it.
Сторінка 162 - All his strength and energy — all his vital and intellectual force — seemed at once to desert him; insomuch that he positively withered up, shrivelled away, and almost vanished from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun.
Сторінка 107 - In a word, old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
Сторінка 59 - The child could not be made amenable to rules. In giving her existence, a great law had been broken; and the result was a being whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but all in disorder, or with an order peculiar to themselves, amidst which the point of variety and arrangement was difficult or impossible to be discovered.
Сторінка 127 - Methought the germ of it was dead in me ! O Hester, thou art my better angel ! I seem to have flung myself — sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened — down upon these forest-leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful ! This is already the better life ! Why did we not find it sooner ? " " Let us not look back," answered Hester Prynne. " The past is gone ! Wherefore should we linger upon it now ? See ! With this symbol, I undo it all,...
Сторінка 98 - It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors, which the night-watcher may so often observe, burning out to waste, in the vacant regions of the atmosphere. So powerful was its radiance, that it thoroughly illuminated the dense medium of cloud betwixt the sky and earth. The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp. It showed the familiar scene of the street, with the distinctness of mid-day, but also with the awfulness that is always imparted to familiar objects by an unaccustomed...
Сторінка 160 - For an instant the gaze of the horror-stricken multitude was concentrated on the ghastly miracle; while the minister stood with a flush of triumph in his face, as one who, in the crisis of acutest pain, had won a victory.
Сторінка 163 - In fine, the gossips of that day believed - and Mr Surveyor Pue, who made investigations a century later, believed - and one of his recent successors in office, moreover, faithfully believes - that Pearl was not only alive, but married, and happy, and mindful of her mother; and that she would most joyfully have entertained that sad and lonely mother at her fireside.