"Ceasing to do evil is the most that can be asked of a human " (Howells- Hawthorne's Hester Prynne). ... She had returned, therefore, and resumed - of her own free will, for not the sternest magistrate of that iron period would have imposed it,-resumed the symbol of which we have related so dark a tale. ...

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