It may be, we shall see flowers there more beautiful ones than we find in the woods. "Come along, Pearl!" said she, drawing her away, "Come and look into this fair garden. THE SCARLET LETTER by Nathaniel Hawthorne Table of Contents: EDITOR'S NOTE INTRODUCTION: THE CUSTOM-HOUSE CHAPTER I. That look of naughty merriment was likewise reflected in the mirror, with so much breadth and intensity of effect, that it made Hester Prynne feel as if it could not be the image of her own child, but of an imp who was seeking to mould itself into Pearl's shape. Pearl pointed upward, also, at a similar picture in the head-piece smiling at her mother, with the elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. In truth, she seemed absolutely hidden behind it. Hester looked, by way of humoring the child and she saw that, owing to the peculiar effect of this convex mirror, the scarlet letter was represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance. Little Pearl-who was as greatly pleased with the gleaming armour as she had been with the glittering frontispiece of the house-spent some time looking into the polished mirror of the breastplate.
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