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Sample ## Take a look inside The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Contents THE CUSTOM-HOUSE THE SCARLET LETTER I. THE PRISON DOOR II. THE MARKET-PLACE III. THE RECOGNITION IV. THE INTERVIEW V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE VI. PEARL VII. THE GOVERNOR’S HALL VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER IX. THE LEECH X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART XII. THE MINISTER’S VIGIL XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN XV. HESTER AND PEARL XVI. A FOREST WALK XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE XX. THE MINISTER IN A MAZE XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY XXII. THE PROCESSION XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER XXIV. CONCLUSION THE CUSTOM-HOUSE INTRODUCTORY TO “THE SCARLET LETTER” It is a little remarkable, that—though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends—an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. The first time was three or four years since, when I favoured the reader—inexcusably, and for no earthly reason that either the indulgent reader or the intrusive author could imagine—with a description of my way of life in the deep quietude of an Old Manse. And now—because, beyond my deserts, I was happy enough to find a listener or two on the former occasion—I again seize the public by the button, and talk of my three years’ experience in a Custom-House. The example of the famous “P. P., Clerk of this Parish,” was never more faithfully followed. 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