The Scarlet Letter Custom House Quotes - The scarlet letter novel summary Nathaniel Hawthorne > aikikenkyukaibogor.com - The nameless narrator, who shares quite a few traits with the book’s author, takes a post as the “chief executive officer,” or surveyor, of the salem custom house.
"a penalty, which in our days, would refer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be interested with almost as strong a dignity as the punishment of death itself"…
