The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: and dance, and imperatively required that the whole breadth of
sunshine should be stripped off its front, and given her to play
with.
"No, my little Pearl!" said her mother; "thou must gather thine
own sunshine. I have none to give thee!"
They approached the door, which was of an arched form, and
flanked on each side by a narrow tower or projection of the
edifice, in both of which were lattice-windows, the wooden
shutters to close over them at need. Lifting the iron hammer
 The Scarlet Letter |