牧师讲到这里,仿佛要留下他的其余的秘密不再揭示了。但他击退了身体的无力,尤其是妄图控制他的内心的软弱。他甩掉了一切支持,激昂地向前迈了一步,站到了那母女二人之前。“那烙印就在他身上!他激烈地继续说着,他是下定了决心要把一切全盘托出了。“上帝的眼睛在注视着它!天使们一直都在指点着它!魔鬼也知道得一清二楚,不时用他那燃烧的手指的触碰来折磨它!但是他却在人们面前狡猾地遮掩着它,神采奕奕地定在你们中间;其实他很悲哀,因为在这个罪孽的世界上人们竟把他看得如此纯洁!——他也很伤心,因为他思念他在天国里的亲属!如今,在他濒死之际,他挺身站在你们面前!他要求你们再看一眼海丝特的红字!他告诉你们,她的红字虽然神秘而可怕,只不过是他胸前所戴的红字的影像而已,而即使他本人的这个红色的耻辱烙印,仍不过是他内心烙印的表象罢了!站在这里的人们,有谁要怀疑上帝对一个罪人的制裁吗?看吧!看看这一个骇人的证据吧!
With a convulsivemotion, he tore away the ministerialband from before his breast. It was revealed! But it were irreverent to describe that revelation. For an instant, the gaze of the horror-stricken multitudewas concentred on the ghastly miracle; while the minister stood, with a flush of triumph in his face, as one who, in the crisis of acutest pain, had won a victory. Then, down he sank upon the scaffold! Hester partly raised him, and supported his head against her bosom. Old Roger Chillingworth knelt down beside him, with a blank, dull countenance, out of which the life seemed to have departed.
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