Chapter 17, 'The Pastor and His Parishioner'
What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other!' — and Dimmesdale's troubled 'Hush, Hester!Read in Books4Free →
'A Consecration of Its Own' — The Debated Defense of Adultery
From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hester's claim that her love had its own holiness has been the novel's most controversial line since publication — defended as romantic truth or condemned as moral chaos.
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