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Updated: April 30, 2025
And now, almost imperceptible as were the latter steps of his progress, he had come opposite the well-remembered and weather-darkened scaffold, where, long since, with all that dreary lapse of time between, Hester Prynne had encountered the world's ignominious stare. There stood Hester, holding little Pearl by the hand! And there was the scarlet letter on her breast!
This is naturally a little embarrassing but I'll try to listen." Agatha sank into a seat by the open window, for she felt physically worn-out, and there was a task she shrank from before her. "Gregory," she said, "I feel that we have come near making what might prove to be a horrible mistake." "We?" said Hawtrey, while the blood rose into his weather-darkened face. "That means both of us."
"So am I," said Lisle. It was growing dark, but the coppery glow of the fire fell upon his face, emphasizing the strong coloring of his weather-darkened skin. On the whole, it was a prepossessing face, clearly cut indeed, it was a trifle thin with a hint of quiet determination in the clear gray eyes and firm mouth.
Then it broke off, and Agatha saw Wyllard start as a man came into the room. He was a little, thick-set man with a weather-darkened face, dressed in rather old blue serge, and he looked and walked like a seaman. In another moment or two he stood still, looking about him, and Wyllard's lips set tight.
The latter bore it good-humoredly, and made a sign of recognition when Courthorne glanced at him. He was a big man, with pleasant blue eyes and a genial, weather-darkened face, though he was known as a daring rider and successful breaker of vicious horses.
Their eyes were clear and, like those of most bushmen, singularly steady; their skin was clean and weather-darkened; and they were leanly muscular. On either side of the lane of green water giant firs, cedars and balsams crept down the rocky hills to the whitened driftwood fringe.
Then he was shown into a bare log-walled hall, where a young man in blue uniform, with a weather-darkened face was writing at a table. "I've been partly expecting a visit," he said. "I'm glad to see you, Mr. Courthorne." Winston laughed with a very good intimation of the outlaw's recklessness, and wondered the while because it cost him no effort.
The soldiers of the bands breathe from their instruments music the most perfect and exquisite of its kind in the world; and as the procession takes the width of the Grand Canal in its magnificent course, soft crimson flushes play upon the old, weather-darkened palaces, and die tenderly away, giving to light and then to shadow the opulent sculptures of pillar, and arch, and spandrel, and weirdly illuminating the grim and bearded visages of stone that peer down from doorway and window.
Four horses plodded wearily in front of the giant plow until he thrust one hand over, and there was a rattle and clanking as he swung them and the machine around beside the wagon. Then he got down, and stood smiling up at Agatha with his soft hat in his hand and the sunlight falling full upon his weather-darkened face.
And now, almost imperceptible as were the latter steps of his progress, he had come opposite the well-remembered and weather-darkened scaffold, where, long since, with all that dreary lapse of time between, Hester Prynne had encountered the world's ignominious stare. There stood Hester, holding little Pearl by the hand! And there was the scarlet letter on her breast!
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