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297 The Scarlet Letter

The History of Literature

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The Brutality of Women

There was a coarser fiber in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding than in their fair descendants. They stood within less than half a century of the period when the man like Elizabeth had been the not altogether unsuitable representative of the sex. The bright morning sun shone on broad shoulders and well-developed busts, and on round and ruddy cheeks that had ripened in the far off island. There was also a boldness and rotundity of speech among these patrons which would startle us today.

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