Then and There, Mother and I, Willst Thou Stand Together?

Little pearl asked the minister to stand with her and mother on Noontide, but he said no. A light gleamed far and wide over all the muffled sky before mister dimmsdale had done speaking. It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors which the night watcher may so often observe burning out to ased in the vacant regions of the atmosphere. So powerful was its radiance that it thoroughly illuminated the dense medium of cloud betwixt the sky and earth.