Hester Prynne and Her Offences

A writhing horror twisted itself across his features like a snake gliding swiftly over them. When he found the eyes of hester prynn fastened on his own and saw that she appeared to recognize him, he slowly and calmly raised his finger, made a gesture with it in the air and laid it on his lips. After a brief space, the convulsion grew almost imperceptible, and finally subsided into the depths of his nature. He then touched the shoulder of a townsman who stood next to him,. I pray you good sir, said he, who is this woman and wherefore is she here set up to public shame?