Punishment and Penance in The Scarlet Letter Please provide passages about public and private punishments and penance from "The Scarlet Letter."

The first
passage is spoken by one of the old townswoman who stands outside the prison, waiting for Hester
to come out.  She believes that a young woman who commits a crime should be at the mercy of the
older woman of the community.  The belief is that women must control their sisters because men
are not harsh enough:

Goodwives, said a
hard-featured dame of fifty, I'll tell ye a piece of my mind. It would be greatly for the
public behoof, if we women, being...

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