The Accursed Thing Must There Be Buried

It is inconceivable the agony with which this public veneration tortured him. He longed to speak out from his own pulpit at the full height of his voice and tell the people what he was. And all this time, perchance, when poor mister dimmsdale was thinking of his grave, he questioned with himself whether the grass would ever grow on it because an accursed thing must there be buried.