After her
ignoble exposure upon the scaffold,is returned to the weather-beaten and rusty prison, that
bastlon of Puritan punitive measure. Immediately, she becomes as still as a corpse, although
her babe continues to whimper. There also is in the prison the stranger whom she has spotted in
the crowd, the man who has been with the Indians, . This man is her husband. And, when he offers
to treat the restless baby, Hester mistrusts him as she is in "no reasonable state of
mind."
Chillingworth then examines Hester herself; as he...
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