chapter 16
"See!" answered Hester, smiling; "now I can stretch out my hand and grasp some of it." As she attempted to do so, the sunshine vanished.
As we said that the light is the good, and the dark is the evil, it seems that the sun, the good, avoids the sinner in this moment. Maybe it's not the sin itself, because pearl is always in the sun
("or, to judge from the bright expression that was dancing on Pearl's features, her mother could have fancied that the child had absorbed it into herself, and would give it forth again, with a gleam about her path, as they should plunge into some gloomier shade.")
but H. might be blaming the fact that the secret is being kept secret by hester, and this makes her a sinner.
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