ee what was going on with the court, because that is what they held in highest regard. Now, good Sir, our Massachusetts magistracy, bethinking themselves that this woman is youthful and fair, and doubtless was strongly tempted to her fall; - and that, moreover, as is most likely, her husband may be at the bottom of the sea; - they have not been bold to put in force the extremity of our righteous law against her. The penalty thereof is death. But, in their great mercy and tenderness of heart, they have doomed Mistress Prynne to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of the pillory, and then thereafter, for the remainder of her natural life, to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom. Ch. 3 Even though they though that the officials' punishment for Hester was too harsh, they still went along with it because no one dared argue with the court. In The Scarlet Letter, the townspeople are so loyal to the Good Reverend Dimmesdale, th

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