Chapter 6, 'Pearl'
The full portrait of Pearl as 'the scarlet letter endowed with life.'
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From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pearl is introduced as a wild, beautiful, elfin child — simultaneously Hester's treasure and the embodied scarlet letter.
Chapter 7, 'The Governor's Hall'
Pearl in scarlet velvet at Governor Bellingham's, deliberately dressed to mirror the letter.
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