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🗓️ 26 November 2021
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0:00.0 | CHAPTER XXII. |
0:03.2 | The Minister in Amaze. |
0:06.7 | As the minister departed in advance of Hester Prynne in Little Pearl, he threw a backward |
0:11.1 | glance, half expecting that he should discover only some faintly traced features or outline |
0:17.2 | of the mother and the child, slowly fading into the twilight of the woods. |
0:22.5 | So great of a sissitude in his life could not at once be received as real. |
0:27.9 | But there was Hester, clad in her grey robe, still standing beside the tree trunk, which |
0:33.8 | some blast had overthrown a long antiquity ago, in which time had ever since been covering |
0:39.2 | with moss, so that these two faded ones, with earth's heaviest burden on them, might there |
0:45.6 | sit down together, and find a single hour's rest and solace. |
0:51.1 | And there was Pearl too, lightly dancing from the margin of the brook, now that the intrusive |
0:57.0 | third person was gone, and taking her old place by her mother's side. |
1:02.1 | So the minister had not fallen asleep and dreamed. |
1:07.9 | In order to free his mind from this indistinctness and duplicity of impression, which vexed it |
1:13.0 | with a strange disquietude, he recalled, and more thoroughly defined the plans which Hester |
1:18.5 | and himself had sketched for their departure. |
1:22.1 | He had been determined between them that the old world, with its crowds and cities, offered |
1:27.0 | them a more eligible shelter and concealment than the wilds of New England, or all America, |
1:32.9 | with its alternatives of an Indian wigwam, or the few settlements of Europeans scattered |
1:38.0 | thinly along the seaboard. |
1:41.0 | Not to speak of the clergyman's health, so inadequate to sustain the hardships of a forest |
1:45.7 | life, his native gifts, his culture, and his entire development would secure him a home |
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