“我重新尝到喜悦了吗?他对自己诧异地叫道。“我还以为喜悦的胚胎已经在我心中死掉了呢!,海丝特,你可真是我的好天使呢!我似乎已经把我这个疾病缠身、罪孽玷污和忧愁满腹的人抛到了这林中落叶之上,再站起来时已经脱胎换骨,周身充满新生的力量来为仁慈的上帝增光!如今我这条生命已经好得多了!我们怎么没有早点想到这一步呢?
"Let us not look back," answered Hester Prynne. "the past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now? See! With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it as it had never been!"
“咱们不要回头看了,海丝特·白兰回答说。“过去的已经一去不复返了!现在我们又何必去留恋呢?瞧!我取下这个标志,也就同时取下了与此相关的一切,就象从来没发生过这件事一样!
So speaking, she undid the claspthat fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the witheredleaves. The mystictoken alightedon the hither vergeof the stream. With a hand's breadth farther flight it would have fallen into the water, and have given the little brook another woe to carry onward, besides the unintelligibletale which it still kept murmuring about. But there lay the embroidered letter, glittering like a lost jewel, which some ill-fated wanderer might pick up, and thenceforthbe haunted by strange phantomsof guilt, sinkings of the heart, and unaccountable misfortune.
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