It may be that it was the talisman
of a stern and severe, but yet a guardian spirit, who now forsook her;
as that, in spite of his strict watch over her heart, some
new evil had crept into it, or some old one had never been expelled.
of a stern and severe, but yet a guardian spirit, who now forsook her;
as that, in spite of his strict watch over her heart, some
new evil had crept into it, or some old one had never been expelled.
Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter
