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Scarlet Letter Chapter 2

The whole town has gathered outside the jailhouse to witness the walk of shame Hester Prynne must endure to the open market place. Gossip and heresay is passed eagerly among the men and woman of the little settlement, each having his or her own opinion on the matter of punishment. Suddenly there are calls for silence as the moment of revelation approaches…
“The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his...

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