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So said Hester Prynne, and glanced her sad eyes downward at the scarlet letter. And, after many, many years, a new grave was delved, near an old and sunken one, in that burial-ground beside which King's Chapel has since been built. It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle. Yet one tomb-stone served for both. All around, there were monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of slate--as the curious investigator may still discern, and perplex himself with the purport--there appeared the semblance of an engraved escutcheon. It bore a device, a herald's wording of which may serve for a motto and brief description of our now concluded legend; so sombre is it, and relieved only by one ever-glowing point of light gloomier than the shadow:--"ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES" - The Scarlet Letter [Books (Last Lines)] A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. - The Scarlet Letter (ch. 1, The Prison-Door) [Books (First Lines)] A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. - The Scarlet Letter (ch. X) [Disease] It is a little remarkable, that--though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends--an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. - The Scarlet Letter (The Custom-House--Introductory) [Books (First Lines)] In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution. - Twice-Told Tales--Fancy's Show Box [Resolution] Displaying page 5 of 5 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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