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Chapter 3.

The Recognition

From this intense consciousness of being the object of severe and universal observation,

the wearer of the scarlet letter was at length relieved by discerning on the outskirts of the crowd,

a figure which irresistibly took possession of her thoughts.

An Indian in his native garb was standing there.

But the men were not so infrequent visitors of the English settlements

that one of them would have attracted any notice from Hesterprin at such a time.

Much less would he have excluded all other objects and ideas from her mind.

By the Indian side and evidently sustaining a companionship with him,

stood a white man, clad in a strange disarray of costume.

He was small and stature with a furrowed visage,

which as yet could hardly be termed aged.

There is a remarkable intelligence in his features,

as of a person who had so cultivated his mental part

that it could not fail to mold the physical to itself

and become manifest by unmistakable tokens.

Although by a seemingly careless arrangement of his garb,

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