townsman Quotes

“Peradventure the guilty one stands looking on at this sad spectacle, unknown of man, and forgetting that God sees him.”

The penalty thereof is death. But in their great mercy and tenderness of heart, they have doomed Mistress Prynne to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of the pillory, and then and thereafter, for the remainder of her natural life, to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom.”