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Chapter 23 The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

The eloquent voice in which the souls of listening audience had been born aloft as on the swelling

waves of the sea, at length, came to a pause.

There is a momentary silence, profound as what should follow the utterance of oracles.

Then, in suit a murmur and half-hushed turmoil, as if the auditors released from the high

spell that had transported them into the region of another's mind, were returning into

themselves, with all their all-en-wonders still heavy on them.

In a moment more, the crowd began to gush forth from the doors of the church.

Now that there was an end, they needed other breath, more fit to support the gross and

earthly life into which they had relapsed, than that atmosphere which the preacher had converted

into words of flame, and had burdened with the rich fragrance of his thought.

In the open air their rapture broke into speech.

The street and the marketplace absolutely babbled from side to side, with the pauses of

the minister.

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