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She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grief, Ease

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love, Mother, Grief
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.106

She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Grief, People, Want
Nathaniel Hawthorne (2004). “The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance”, p.229, Broadview Press

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