Hester, Prynne, a Minister of the World, Whose Hands Are Always Over His Heart?

Hester prynne felt mistress hibbins to be of infirm mind, yet strangely startled and awe stricken by the confidence with which she affirmed a personal connection between so many persons, herself among them, and the evil one. It might be an indian pow wow or a lapland wizard changing hands with us, that is but a trifle when a woman knows the world. But this minister couldst thou surely tell hester whether he was the same man that encountered thee on the forest path.