Günahkar
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“I have thought of death,” said she,- “have wished for it,- would even have prayed for it, were it fit that such as I should pray for anything.
Drink it! It may be less soothing than a sinless conscience. That I cannot give thee. But it will calm the swell and heaving of thy passion, like oil thrown on the waves of a tempestuous sea.
The stranger had bent his eyes on Hester Prynne. It was carelessly, at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.
Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner’s purpose to read the human soul.
Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet!
But who can see an inch into futurity, beyond his nose? My own head was the first that fell!
In short, unpleasant as was my predicament, at best, I saw much reason to congratulate myself that I was on the losing side, rather than the triumphant one.
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
He was, in truth, a rare phenomenon; so perfect in one point of view; so shallow, so delusive, so impalpable, such an absolute nonentity, in every other. My conclusion was that he had no soul, no heart, no mind; nothing, as I have already said, but instincts; and yet, withal, so cunningly had the few materials of his character been put together, that there was no painful perfection of defiency, but, on my part, an entire contentment with what I found in him.