“The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Know, then, this veil is a type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends. No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must separate me from the world...” (Hawthorne 323). Reverend Hooper has a secret; one that he’s vowed to never reveal. The only accompanying evidence of his dark sin i
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