“God gave her into my keeping,” repeated Hester Prynne, raising her voice almost to a shriek. “I will not give her up!” And here, by sudden impulse," this statement shows the Hester will do anything and everything to keep her only child pearl from being taken away from her even if that mean't running away and never returning

"But she named the infant 'Pearl,' as being of great price- purchased with all she had- her mother's only pleasure." Chapter VI, 'Pearl'

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