The Temptation of a Young Sister

The minister knew well that he was himself enshrined within the stainless sanctity of her heart. Satan had surely led the poor young girl away from her mother's side and thrown her into the pathway of the sorely tempted. The next morning, before the minister had time to celebrate his victory over this last temptation, he was conscious of another impulse, more ludicrous and almost as horrible. We blush to tell it it, stop short in the road and teach some very wicked words to a knot of little puritan children who were playing there,. And here, since he had so valiantly forborne all other wickedness, poor mister dimsdale longed at least to shake hands with the ter