【43 The Scarlet Letter 紅字】
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The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterised by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognised as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped. It may be true, that, to a sensitive observer, there was something exquisitely painful in it. Her attire，
那個年輕的婦女身材修長，體態優美至極。她的秀發烏黑又濃密，在陽光下熠熠生輝；她五官端正，麵色有光澤；她雙眉鮮明，雙瞳漆黑。按照當時女性舉止優雅的風範來看，她也當屬一位淑女；不過她是端莊的形象，而不是如今人們心中的那種纖弱、易逝、無法描述的優雅。即便從就當時對淑女的理解而言，海斯特·白蘭從獄中走出的時刻是最像個淑女的。那些之前就認識她的人以為她在經曆這場暴風似的災難後會黯然失色，但此刻他們震驚了，甚至驚呆了，因為他們發現她容光煥發，在她所遭受的不幸和恥辱外環繞著一圈光環。不過，目光敏銳者可能會從中觀察到極度的痛苦。她的衣服是她在獄中為了這個特別的時刻而準備的，其設計憑借她自己的想象，其特有的不羈和別致像是在傳達她精神境界和無所顧忌的心情。但吸引了所有人目光的是她胸前繡著的閃閃的紅字，那紅字妙不可言以至於那
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which, indeed, she had wrought for the occasion, in prison, and had modelled much after her own fancy, seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity. But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer—so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time—was that SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.
。中圍氛的身自在裹包緊緊，來出離脫中係關際人通普從她把，力魔種有字紅個這。般一蘭白·特斯海見次初是像女女男男的識熟她與些
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