 We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!  Heroines of Fiction - Page 172by William Dean Howells - 1901 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1850 - 320 pages
...is one worse than even the polluted priest ! That old man's revenge lias been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a...rising from the ground. " No ; I have not forgotten ! " They sat down again, side by side, and hand clasped in hand, on the mossy trunk of the fallen tree.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1851 - 328 pages
...There is one worse than even the polluted priest ! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a...thou forgotten it ?" " Hush, Hester ! " said Arthur Dirnmesdale, rising from the ground. " No ; I have not forgotten !" They sat down again, side by side,... | |
 | 1886 - 890 pages
...There is one worse than even the polluted priest ! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart." Yet society has no stigma to fix upon his brnast. Hawthorne, however, with characteristic charity,... | |
 | Nathaniel [two or more stories] Hawthorne - 1866 - 596 pages
...There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a...rising from the ground. " No; I have not forgotten!" They sat down again, side by side, and hand clasped in Laud, on the mossy trunk of the fallen tree.... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 978 pages
...speculation. Pitiless condemnation and scorn drive her to justify what she had better unfeignedly repented. " What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so. We said 'so to each other." Thrown out of her true relations to society, she sees its whole fabric in false perspective, awry.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American fiction - 1875 - 624 pages
...There is one worse than even the polluted priest ! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a...felt it so ! We said so to each other ! Hast thou fonjotten it ? " "Hush, Hester!" said Arthur Dimmesdale, rising from the ground. " No ; I have not... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - Adultery - 1878 - 324 pages
...one worse than even } /the polluted priest ! That old man's revenge has been (blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, • | the sanctity...rising from the ground. " No ; I have not forgotten ! " They sat down again, side by side, and hand clasped in hand, on the mossy trunk of the fallen tree.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 306 pages
...There is one worse than even the polluted priest ! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a...rising from the ground. " No ; I have not forgotten ! " They sat down again, side by side, and hand clasped in hand, on the mossy trunk of the fallen tree.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - American literature - 1883 - 656 pages
...There is one worse than even the polluted priest I That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a...rising from the ground. " No ; I have not forgotten ! " They sat down again, side by side, and hand clasped in hand, on the mossy trunk of the fallen tree.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 626 pages
...There is one worse than even the polluted priest ! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a...rising from the ground. " No ; I have not forgotten ! " They sat down again, side by side, and hand clasped in hand, on the mossy trunk of the fallen tree.... | |
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