Today's Stichomancy for Rebecca Gayheart

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne:

which now, for two or three generations past, has been merely historical and traditionary among us, but was held, in the old time, to be as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizen- 70 THE SCARLET LETTER

The Scarlet Letter