“"Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own."”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVII: The Pastor and His Parishioner

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American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

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