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But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mother, Treasure, Pearls
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
But she named the infant Pearl, as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!