The Pillar of the Pillory

The scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to hester prynne the entire track along which she had been treading since her happy infancy. She saw again her native village in old england and her paternal home, a decayed house of gray stone with a poverty stricken aspect. There she beheld another countenance of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin scholar like visage With eyes dim and bleared by the lamplight that had served them to pore over many ponderous books. Next rose before her in memory's picture gallery,. the intricate and narrow thoroughfares, the tall gray houses, the huge cathedrals and