Is There a Quality of Awful Sacrament in What Hester Says?

There is truth in what she says, began the minister with a voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. And whether it were his failing health, or whatever the cause might be, his large, dark eyes had a world of pain in their troubled and melancholy depth. God gave her the child and gave her too, an instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements, both seemingly so peculiar, which no other mortal being can possess. Is there not a quality of awful sacredness in the relation between this mother and this child? Master dimesdale interrupted the governor, make that plain. It must be even so, resumed the minister. For if we deem it otherwise, do we not thereby