2. “She will not speak! Wondrous strength and generosity of awoman’s heart! She will not speak!”

3. “I am a stranger, and have been a wanderer, sorely against mywill. I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bondsamong the heathen-folk, to the southward, and am now brought hither by this Indian, to beredeemed out of my captivity.”

4. “It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moralblossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of the tale of human frailty and sorrow.

5. “I will not speak! And my child must seek a heavenly Father;she shall never know an earthly one!”

6. “Although, by a seemingly careless arrangement of hisheterogeneous garb, he had endeavored to conceal or abate the peculiarity, it was sufficiently evident to Hester Prynne that one of this man’s shoulders rose higher than the other.”

7. “Speak to the woman, my brother. It is of moment to her soul,and therefore, as the worshipful Governor says, momentous to thine own, in whose charge hersis. Exhort her to confess the truth!”

8.to strive in competition for; contend for superiority

9. soundness of judgment; wisdom; mental sharpness

10. boding ill; unfavorable

11. a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securingthe hands and head in order to expose a criminal to public ridicule orabuse

12. insulting display of contempt in words or action; an insult

13. the face or countenance; the outward appearance

14. a minor church official who ushers or helps preserve orderduring services

15. disgrace; dishonor; shame

16. complaint; objection; protest

17. the look of something; carriage; appearance