Chapter 22, 'The Procession'
Hester listens outside the meeting-house as his voice pours forth in 'an essential character of plaintiveness.'
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From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dimmesdale delivers his greatest sermon while planning to flee with Hester — the deepest hypocrisy and the source of his eloquence simultaneously.
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