The Scarlet Letter of Hester Prynne

Never had hester prynne appeared more ladylike in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she was issued from the prison. Those who had before known her were astonished to perceive how her beauty shone out and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped. Her attire seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood by its wild and picturesque peculiarity. But the point which drew all eyes is that scarlet letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom,. It had the effect of a spell in her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and enclosing her in a sphere by