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Truth / Hidden things

Mystery

The Recognition

that matter remaineth a riddle
Peradventure
unknown of man
mystery
mystery of a woman’s soul

The Interview

stranger
secrets
solution of a mystery
Thou hast kept the secret of thy paramour. Keep, likewise, mine!
secret bond
my purpose to live and die unknown

Hester at Her Needle

It might be, too,—doubtless it was so […] it might be that another feeling kept her within the scene and pathway that had been so fatal.

The Leech

stranger
mystery
Why, with such rank in the learned world, had he come hither? What could he, whose sphere was in great cities, be seeking in the wilderness?
bringing all its mysteries into the daylight
The latter had his suspicions, indeed, that even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale’s bodily disease had never fairly been revealed to him. It was a strange reserve!
mysterious old physician
The people, in the case of which we speak, could justify its prejudice against Roger Chillingworth by no fact or argument worthy of serious refutation. There was an aged handicraftsman, it is true, who had been a citizen of London at the period of Sir Thomas Overbury’s murder, now some thirty years agone; he testified to having seen the physician, under some other name, which the narrator of the story had now forgotten, in company with Doctor Forman, the famous old conjurer, who was implicated in the affair of Overbury. Two or three individuals hinted, that the man of skill, during his Indian captivity, had enlarged his medical attainments by joining in the incantations of the savage priests; who were universally acknowledged to be powerful enchanters, often performing seemingly miraculous cures by their skill in the black art.

The Leech and His Patient

hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness
mysterious and puzzled smile upon his lips

A Forest Walk

mystery of the primeval forest
All these giant trees and boulders of granite seemed intent on making a mystery of the course of this small brook
the current of her life gushed from a well-spring as mysterious

A Flood of Sunshine

afar into the wood’s heart of mystery, which had become a mystery of joy.

The Child at the Brook-Side

And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened,

The Minister in a Maze

Another man had returned out of the forest; a wiser one; with a knowledge of hidden mysteries which the simplicity of the former never could have reached.
leaving that mystery to solve itself, or go unsolved for ever

The New England Holiday

deep, mysterious ocean

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Truth

The Market-Place

truth
known
true
Knowing well
reality
Could it be true?
assure herself that the infant and the shame were real. Yes!—these were her realities,—all else had vanished!

The Recognition

You say truly
Truly
you must know
Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle
But he will be known!—he will be known!—he will be known!
Knowing
Truly
truth

The Interview

the truth
Verily
know not
Dost thou know me so little
I might have foreseen all this. I might have known that
Thou knowest
thou knowest
I was frank with thee. I felt no love, nor feigned any.”
True
I have sought truth in books
she hardly knew why
thou wottest

Hester at Her Needle

more real
reality
half a truth
knew
sympathetic knowledge
if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s
truth
more truth
all nature knew of it

Pearl

She knew
we know not whence, and goes we know not whither
real
truth
in very truth
genuine earnestness
acquainted with

The Governor’s Hall

in truth
verily
of a truth
In truth

The Elf-Child and the Minister

error
know
truths
knew well enough
inform her of those truths
known
knowest me better
Thou knowest
thou knowest
truth
truth
instinctive knowledge of its nature and requirements
very truth
teach
knew
truly
if we suppose this interview betwixt Mistress Hibbins and Hester Prynne to be authentic, and not a parable

The Leech

extensively acquainted
gained much knowledge
best acquainted with
really
acquainted with
knew
In truth
Mr. Dimmesdale was a true priest, a true religionist
know the man
truly
knew well
unerring
truths
true

The Leech and His Patient

desirous only of truth
A knowledge of men’s hearts
True
by making manifest the power and reality of conscience
than God’s own truth
in good sooth
I know not
hath none of that mystery
I do verily believe it
frankly
that I know all
knoweth, oftentimes, but half
whom I have known

The Interior of a Heart

was really
it needed only to know the spring that controlled the engine;—and the physician knew it well!
actual nature
True
conscious
abstruse lore
highest truths
wisdom
adore the truth
well knew
very truth
veriest
he loved the truth
truest and most substantial things
only truth, that continued to give Mr. Dimmesdale a real existence on this earth

The Minister’s Vigil

in very truth
“The whole town will awake, and hurry forth, and find me here!”
The town did not awake
she was well known
professional teacher of the truth
credibility
perfectly aware
“Thou wast not bold!—thou wast not true!”
“How knewest thou
“Verily, and in good faith,” answered Roger Chillingworth, “I knew nothing of the matter.
brought to the truth

Another View of Hester

With her knowledge of a train of circumstances…
besides the legitimate action of his own conscience, a terrible machinery had been brought to bear, and was still operating, on Mr. Dimmesdale’s well-being and repose. Knowing what this poor, fallen man had once been,
Interpreting Hester Prynne’s deportment as an appeal of this nature [?]
it is true
truest theory
had they known of it
truest

Hester and the Physician

Not to hide the truth
thou sayest truly
He has been conscious of me. He has felt an influence dwelling always upon him like a curse. He knew, by some spiritual sense, […] he knew
he did not err!
He must discern thee in thy true character. What may be the result, I know not.
to truth, though it be the truth

Hester and Pearl

they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality
dost thou know, my child
Thou hast taught it
she could not satisfy herself whether Pearl really attached any meaning to the symbol
ascertain the point
“Dost thou know, child, […] “Truly do I!” […] “It is for the same reason that the minister keeps his hand over his heart!”
But in good earnest now

A Forest Walk

make known to Mr. Dimmesdale […] the true character of the man
she knew him to be in the habit
she learnt that
Is it true, mother?
“And, mother, he has his hand over his heart! Is it because, when the minister wrote his name in the book, the Black Man set his mark in that place? But why does he not wear it outside his bosom, as thou dost, mother?”

The Pastor and His Parishioner

he knew not
hungry for the truth
discern the black reality
contrast between what I seem and what I am
in very truth
Is there no reality
Thou little knowest
recognizes me for what I am
be known as
thus much of truth would save me!
I have striven to be true! Truth was the one virtue which I might have held fast, and did hold fast through all extremity;
I might have known it!” murmured he.”I did know it! Was not the secret told
thou little, little knowest all the horror of this thing!
might be, for one moment, true!
when thou didst tell me what he was
Exchange this false life of thine for a true one.
garments of mock holiness, and have shown myself to mankind as they will see me at the judgment-seat
after the torment of a seven years’ cheat
hollow mockery of his good name

A Flood of Sunshine

true one
stern and sad truth
happiness before unknown
nor illumined by higher truth
“Thou must know Pearl!”
I know it!
glad to know me?”
now like a real child […] [cf. “Spectres”]
as well as it knew how
The flowers appeared to know it

The Child at the Brook-Side

But I know whose brow she has!”
“Dost thou know, Hester,”
in truth
thou knowest it well!
There were both truth and error in the impression;
as if to detect and explain to herself the relation which they bore to one another.
“I see what ails the child,”
in very truth
“Dost thou know thy mother now, child?”

The Minister in a Maze

could not at once be received as real
real substance of his character
finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The same was true
In truth
truths of Scripture
heaven-breathing Gospel truth
What he really did whisper,
if men say true
if it were a real incident
He knew
with a knowledge
A bitter kind of knowledge that!
almost convinced of the old man’s knowledge, or, at least, his confident suspicion
The physician knew, then, that, in the minister’s regard, he was no longer a trusted friend, but his bitterest enemy. So much being known,
upon the real position
Verily

The New England Holiday

it is true
know you not
you must have known it;
“They know each other well, indeed,”

The Procession

Yet, if the clergyman were rightly viewed
knew nothing
felt a dreary influence come over her, but wherefore or whence she knew not
How deeply had they known each other then!
She hardly knew him now!
idea that all must have been a delusion, and that, vividly as she had dreamed it, there could be no real bond
we know what that means, Hester Prynne! But, truly, forsooth,
when a woman knows the world
“Madam, I know not
I know thee, Hester
Then thou shalt know
the gentleman she wots of
learning the purport

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

golden truths
“I know not! I know not!”
knowing
knew it well
God knows;

Conclusion

a truth so momentous
some of whom had known Hester Prynne
—“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”
heart-knowledge
a new truth would be revealed
by the truest test

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Unity / Separation

Separation

The Market-Place

separated from

The Recognition

stand thus, with so many betwixt him and her

Hester at Her Needle

separate and insulated

Pearl

so often came between herself and her

The Governor’s Hall

deprive her of her child
transferred to wiser and better guardianship than Hester Prynne’s

The Elf-Child and the Minister

taken out of thy charge
we would transfer thy child to other hands
“He gave her, in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me.
sundering the relation

The Leech and His Patient

“There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child’s composition,”
dares thrust himself between the sufferer and his God?”
thrust aside the vestment
remote

Another View of Hester

she cast away the fragment of a broken chain.

The Pastor and His Parishioner

So long estranged
“Thou must dwell no longer with this man,”

A Flood of Sunshine

as was altogether foreign to the clergyman

The Child at the Brook-Side

but stand apart
Hester felt herself, in some indistinct and tantalizing manner, estranged from Pearl
the child and mother were estranged, but through Hester’s fault, not Pearl’s.
Pearl broke away from her mother
She then remained apart

The Minister in a Maze

fate that grew between them
After parting from the old churchmember
He knew that it was himself, the thin and white-cheeked minister, who had done and suffered these things, and written thus far into the Election Sermon! But he seemed to stand apart, and eye this former self with scornful pitying, but half-envious curiosity. That self was gone! Another man had returned out of the forest; a wiser one; with a knowledge of hidden mysteries which the simplicity of the former never could have reached.

The New England Holiday

A party of Indians— […]—stood apart,

The Procession

he seemed so remote from her own sphere, and utterly beyond her reach.
he, so unattainable in his worldly position, and still more so in that far vista
for being able so completely to withdraw himself from their mutual world;
found him not.
remoteness and intangibility that had fallen around the minister
entirely apart from

Conclusion

as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle.

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Unity

The Market-Place

in a knot together
crowd
crowd
clasp the infant closely to her bosom
crowd
crowd
surrounding multitude
crowd of Puritans
crowd
multitude
in connection with
clutched the child

The Recognition

crowd
that the partner of her iniquity should not, at least, stand on the scaffold by her side
crowd
whole people
other eminent characters, by whom the chief ruler was surrounded
whole crowd
fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer
into one accord of
crowd
multitude

The Interview

crowd
so close a relation between himself and her
took his own seat beside her
we came down the old church-steps together, a married pair
Between thee and me, the scale hangs fairly balanced.
a woman, a man, a child, amongst whom and myself there exist the closest ligaments.
bond
bind
bond

Hester at Her Needle

all mankind
one with whom she deemed herself connected in a union, that, unrecognized on earth, would bring them together before the bar of final judgment, and make that their marriage-altar, for a joint futurity of endless retribution.
attached itself
universal
crowd
a human eye—upon the ignominious brand, that seemed to give a momentary relief, as if half of her agony were shared
fellowship with
what had the two in common?
fellow-mortal

Pearl

Never, since her release from prison, had Hester met the public gaze without her
Pearl, too, was there
small companion of her mother
Mother and daughter stood together in the same circle
pressing herself close to

The Governor’s Hall

the public, on the one side
Little Pearl, of course, was her companion
by her mother’s side
analogy between the object of her affection, and the emblem of her guilt and torture
likeness of the scarlet letter running along by her side

The Elf-Child and the Minister

in close companionship with him
when she had familiarly known him
Ye shall not take her!
“God gave her into my keeping,”
“I will not give her up!”
I will not lose the child!
I will not lose the child!
right to keep her

The Leech

crowd
the two were lodged in the same house

The Interior of a Heart

his heart vibrated in unison with theirs
hold communion, in your behalf, with the Most High Omniscience
by a simultaneous impulse
more in accordance with the old, corrupted faith of Rome
close beside him

The Minister’s Vigil

universe
“Ye have both been here before, but I was not with you. Come up hither once again, and we will stand all three together!”
The three formed an electric chain.
“Wilt thou stand here with mother and me
stand with thy mother and thee one other day, but not to-morrow
take my hand, and mother’s hand
thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together!
little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two.
and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another.
multitudes
peculiar intimacy

Another View of Hester

The links that united her to the rest of human kind—links of flowers, or silk, or gold, or whatever the material—had all been broken. Here was the iron link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break. Like all other ties, it brought along with it its obligations.
had been continually by his side

Hester and the Physician

I thus bound myself
Your clutch

A Forest Walk

who was necessarily the companion of all her mother’s expeditions, however inconvenient her presence
“If thou fearest to leave me in our cottage, thou mightest take me along with thee.

The Pastor and His Parishioner

did they meet
that it was like the first encounter
two spirits who had been intimately connected in their former life
They now felt themselves, at least, inhabitants of the same sphere.
thou hast in me, the partner of it!”—
very contiguity of his enemy
continual presence of Roger Chillingworth,
Thou and I, Hester
They sat down again, side by side, and hand clasped in hand
pair
“Think for me, Hester! […] Resolve for me!”
“Thou shall not go alone!”

A Flood of Sunshine

clergyman resolved to flee, and not alone.
Neither can I any longer live without her companionship; so powerful is she to sustain,—so tender to soothe!
“Our little Pearl!
in closest sympathy with the antique wood
tripping about always at thy side

The Child at the Brook-Side

In her was visible the tie that united them
Pearl was the oneness of their being.
conjoined, when they beheld at once the material union, and the spiritual idea, in whom they met, and were to dwell immortally together?
who still sat together on the mossy tree-trunk, waiting to receive her.
now included them both in the same glance
clasping Hester in her arms. “Now thou art my mother indeed! And I am thy little Pearl!”
with us, hand in hand, we three together,
“But in days to come he will walk hand in hand with us. We will have a home and fireside of our own;

The Minister in a Maze

these two fated ones […] might there sit down together

The New England Holiday

thronged with the craftsmen and other plebeian inhabitants of the town, in considerable numbers
no more to be separated from her
her garb was all of one idea with her nature
rules of behaviour that were binding on all others
gaping crowd around them
he tells me he is of your party, and a close friend to the gentleman you spoke of

The Procession

One glance of recognition, she had imagined, must needs pass between them.
her whole orb of life, both before and after, was connected with this spot, as with the one point that gave it unity.

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

united testimony
blended into one great voice by the universal impulse which makes likewise one vast heart out of the many
while still the little hand of the sin-born child was clasped in his.
as one intimately connected
bending her face down close to his. “Shall we not spend our immortal life together?
in an everlasting and pure reunion

Conclusion

Yet one tombstone served for both.

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