Chapter 23, 'The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter'
'Ye, that have loved me! — ye, that have deemed me holy! — behold me here, the one sinner of the world!' He tears open his ministerial band.
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From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
After his triumphant Election Day sermon, Dimmesdale mounts the scaffold with Hester and Pearl, reveals the mark on his own chest, and dies.
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