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By Nathaniel Hawthorne
The world's law was no law for her mind.
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- The Scarlet Letter, a Romance (first edition), 1850 · Chapter XIII, "Another View of Hester", p. 198
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- Internet Archive (Duke University Libraries scan of the first edition, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850)
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From Chapter XIII, "Another View of Hester", of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850). The narrator speaks about Hester Prynne, years after she was cast out by her town.