She wears her scarlet letter among the solemnly dressed Puritans as this rosebush wears its scarlet blossoms amidst a small plot of grass and weeds. ... "So speaking, she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves With a hand's breadth further flight it would have fallen into the water, and have given the little brook another woe to carry onward But there lay the embroidered letter, glittering like a lost jewel- (Hawthorn). ...

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