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'I often think, said he, 'that we have to bear more from the stupidity than from the wickedness of the world. It should be mentioned that about a week after Hester's escape from Chesterton there came to her a letter from her mother. 'DEAREST HESTER, You do not think that I do not love you because I tried to protect you from what I believe to be sin and evil and temptation?
I have never spoken of it to any one, because I know it is so silly. But Rachel I have no fever now and yet I know you'll laugh at me I laugh at my own foolish self and yet all the time I have a horrible feeling that" Hester's eyes had in them a terror that was hardly human "that my book is burned." The soul of thy brother is a dark forest. Russian Proverb.
In the afternoon of a certain summer's day, after Pearl grew big enough to run about, she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild-flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother's bosom; dancing up and down, like a little elf, whenever she hit the scarlet letter. Hester's first motion had been to cover her bosom with her clasped hands.
Kiss me. How I worship you for saying them!" Hester told this incident to Hannah, who received it with a rebuking look, and said, coldly: "Sister, it was a lie." Hester's lips trembled piteously; she choked down a sob, and said: "Oh, Hannah, it was a sin, but I could not help it. I could not endure the fright and the misery that were in her face." "No matter. It was a lie.
She had a good figure, but not good enough to counterbalance her nondescript face. She had not the air of distinction which he was so quick to detect and appraise. She was a social nonentity. He did not care to look at her a second time. "I would not marry her with twice her fortune," he said to himself. Regie's hand had stolen into Hester's.
She was therefore secretly much annoyed when the Meryons presumed to hang up bells in their new home. She made no sign of displeasure, but one morning it was discovered that the ropes had been cut and the bells carried off. Cross-examination of the servants elicited the fact that one of Lady Hester's emissaries had arrived late at night, wrenched off the bells, and taken them away.
Lamartine's version of Lady Hester's conversation is sometimes of dubious accuracy. "Eöthen," pp. 81, 82. In the following narrative we very frequently adopt, with slight alteration and condensation, Mr. Kinglake's language. "This branch at least" and here she showed The branch within her raiment stowed "You needs must own"... He answers not, but eyes the sheen Of the blest bough.
Her father's farm lay next to the Meikeljohns'; the two places formed practically one convenient whole; and when Elim had been no more than a child, Meikeljohn Senior and Hester's parents had solemnly agreed upon a mutually satisfactory marriage.
"Look here, Hester Corey," said Tom Craig, "you promised, if you could be Queen, to be always sweet and pleasant. Do you call this keeping your promise?" "Pooh, who cares! I only promised, if the club stayed just the same. If you're going to put in a lot of new members without asking me, my promise doesn't count." "Ruth isn't 'a lot," said Marjorie, laughing at Hester's fury.
Hester made many discoveries about herself during the first months of her life at Warpington, and the first of the series amazed her more than any of the later ones. She discovered that she was proud. Perhaps she had not the enormous opinion of herself which Mrs. Gresley so frequently deplored, for Hester's thoughts seldom dwelt upon herself.
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