'Thou Art of the Prince of the Air'

An irresistible feeling kept hester near the spot, as the sacred edifice was too much thronged to admit another auditor. She took up her position close beside the scaffold of the pillory. In sufficient proximity to bring the whole sermon to her ears in the shape of an indistinct but varied murmur and flow of the minister's very peculiar voice. Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos and emotions higher tender in a tongue native to the human heart. Wherever educated, muffled as a sound was, by its passage through the church walls hester, prynn listened with such intentness and sympathized so intimately that the sermon had throwed a meaning