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"'Wilt thou yet forgive me!' she repeated, over and over, again 'Wilt thou not frown? Wilt thou forgive?'
'I do forgive you, Hester,' replied the minister, at length, with a deep utterance, out of an abyss of sadness, but
no anger.
'I freely forgive you now. May God forgive us both! We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse
than even the polluted priest!
That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou
and I, Hester, never did so!'"
- "The Scarlett Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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