

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Drawn by Mary Hallock Foote and Engraved by A. V. S. Anthony. The
ornamental head-pieces are by L. S. Ipsen.
| Page | |
| The Custom-House | 1 |
| The Prison Door | 49 |
| Vignette,—Wild Rose | 51 |
| The Gossips | 57 |
| “Standing on the Miserable Eminence” | 65 |
| “She was led back to Prison” | 78 |
| “The Eyes of the wrinkled Scholar glowed” | 87 |
| The Lonesome Dwelling | 93 |
| Lonely Footsteps | 99 |
| Vignette | 104 |
| A touch of Pearl’s baby-hand | 113 |
| Vignette | 118 |
| The Governor’s Breastplate | 125 |
| “Look thou to it! I will not lose the child!” | 135 |
| The Minister and Leech | 148 |
| [viii]The Leech and his Patient | 165 |
| The Virgins of the Church | 172 |
| “They stood in the noon of that strange splendor” | 185 |
| Hester in the House of Mourning | 195 |
| Mandrake | 211 |
| “He gathered herbs here and there” | 213 |
| Pearl on the Sea-Shore | 217 |
| “Wilt thou yet forgive me?” | 237 |
| A Gleam of Sunshine | 249 |
| The Child at the Brook-Side | 257 |
| Chillingworth,—“Smile with a sinister meaning” | 287 |
| New England Worthies | 289 |
| “Shall we not meet again?” | 311 |
| Hester’s Return | 320 |






