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On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.

What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other.

— Hester Prynne (dialogue) · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVII

They said that it meant Able, so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman’s strength.

— Narrator · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XIII

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