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How soon — with what strange rapidity, indeed! — did Pearl arrive at an age that was capable of social intercourse beyond the mother's ever-ready smile and nonsense words! And then what a happiness would it have been, could Hester Prynne have heard her clear, bird-like voice mingling with the uproar of other childish voices, and have distinguished and unravelled her own darling's tones, amid all the entangled outcry of a group of sportive children! But this could never be. Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world. An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants. Nothing was more remarkable than the instinct, as it seemed, with which the child comprehended her loneliness; the destiny that had drawn an inviolable circle round about her; the whole peculiarity, in short, 去书内
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  • 肖璐 肖璐

    对孩子的长大感到无所适从。她生来就是一个错误，注定不会和普通孩子一样，她被排挤，受尽孤独，但这不是她的错

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