Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-09-09

with which She still seemed to mingle
Pearl was decked out with airy gayety.
1t would have been impossible to guess
that this bright and sunny apparition
owed its existence TO the shape of gloomy
gray; or that fancy, at once SO gor-
geous and so delicate as must have been
requisite to contrive the child's apparel.
was the same that had achieved a task
perhaps more difficult in imparting so
distinct q popularity TO Testers simple
robe. The dress, so proper was it to
little Pearl, seemed an eflluence, or in
evitable development and outward man
Hesitation of her character, no more to
be separated from her than the many
huod brilliancy from butterilys wing.
or the painted glory from tho leaf Of a
bright flower As with these, so with
the child; her garb was all of one idea
with her nature. On this eventful day,
moreover, there was certain singular
inquietude and excitement in her mood,
resembling nothing so much as the SHIN
mer Of diamond, that sparkles and
flashes with the varied throbbingso Of the
breast on which it is displayed.
Children have always n sympathy in
tho agitations Of those connected with
them; always, especially a sense OF any
trouble or impending revolution of what
EVER kind in domestic circumstances,
and therefore Pearl, who was the gem
on her mothers unquiet bosom, betrayed
by the very dance of her spirits the emo
tons which none could detect in the
marble passieeness Of Hester's brow.
This effervescence made her fit with
q birdlike movement, rather than walk
by her mothers side. She broke con-
tinually into shouts of n wild, inarticu-
late and sometimes piercing music
When they reached the market place she
became still more restless on perceiving
the stir and hustle that enlivened the
spot, for it was usually more like the
broad and lonesome green before vii
lage meeting house than the center of a
towns business.
"Why, what is this, mother" cried
she. "Wherefore have all the people
left their work today? Is it play day
for the whole worldg See, there is the
blacksmith He has washed his sooty
face and put on his Sabbath day clothes
and looks as if he would gladly be merry
if any kind body would only teach hin
howl And there is Master Bracket, TN,
old jailer, nodding and smiling at me
Why does no do so, mother!"
"He remembers thee a little babe, my
child" answered Hester.
Il. 4
for all that-the black, grim, ugly oye,
old mani" said Pearl. "He may nod a
thee, if he will; for thou art clad il
gray and wearest the scarlet letter. Blu
see, mother, how many faces of strang
people, and Indians among them, an
sailorsl What have they all come to d
hero in the market placer
"They wait to see the procession pass,
said Hester. For the governor and tn
magistrates are TO go by and the minis
tiers and al the great people and goo
people, with the music and the soldier
marching before them"
"And win the minister be thereg asle
Pearl. "And will he hold out both hi
hands to me, rs when thou ledst me t
him from the brooksideY
"He will be there, child" answere
her mother. "But he win not gre,
thee today; nor must thou greet him.
"What a strange, sad man is he
said the child, rs if speaking partly
herself. "In the dark night time =
calls us to him, and holds thy hand an
mine, as when we stood with him o
the scaffold yonder. And in the dec
forest, where only the old trees ca
hear, and the strip of sky see it, b
talks with thee, sitting on a heap {
mossi And he kisses my forehead, To-
so that the little brook would hardl
/ wash it offl But here, in the sunny da,
and among all the people, he knows L
/ not; nor must we know himl A strang
! sad man is he, with his hand alway
( over his hearth"
"Be quiet, PEARL Thou understands
not these things said her mOthe
} "Think not now of the minister bI
: look about thee and see how CHEEKY
everybodys face today. The childrC
s have come from their schools, and Il
= grown people from their workshops an
, their fields on purpose to be happy. t'
D today a new man is beginning to IN
e over them, and so-as has been the Gu
o tom Of mankind ever since n nation WI
D first gathered-they make merry and T
d joice, as if a good and golden year we
o at length to pass over the poor o.
I worldl"
e The picture of human life in the ma
n ket place, though its general tint w
D the sad gray, brown or black Of the En-
Z lish emigrants, was yet enlivened
+ some diversity Of hue. A party Of L
4 dians-in their savage fnery of curiou
IS ly embroidered deerskin robes, Wal
a pun belts, red and yellow ocher al
/: feathers, and armed with the bow al
/, arrow and stoneheaded spear - sto'
/ apart with countenances Of infeXih
y gravity beyond what even tho Puriti
s aspect could attain. Nor, wild
e were these painted barbarians, we
I. they the widest feature Of the seen
D. This distinction could moro justly
claimed by some mariners part Of I
crew of the vessel from the Spani
Main-who had como ashore 10 s
the humors of election day. Tn
n were rough looking desperadoes, vi