# Quote — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

> She named the minister; and the moment she did so, all the reserve melted away, and burst into tears. Not, however, that the sight of him was any new sensation. He had long been in her eyes, a necessity; and she had habitually overflowed with awe, to him in the pulpit, and to do him reverence the dread being had vanished.

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> I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

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