The Brook of the Child's Soul, the Boundary Between Two Worlds, and the Mother's

Hester felt herself estranged from pearl, as if the child had strayed out of the sphere in which she and her mother dwelt together. There was both truth and error in the son. The child and the mother were estranged, but through hester's fault, not pearl's. Since the latter rambled from her side, another inmate had been admitted within the circle of the mother's feelings,. That pearl, the returning wanderer, could not find her, wonted place and hardly knew where she was. I have a strange fancy that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and that thou canst never meet thy pearl again? Or is she an elfish spirit