The Scarlet Letter

What are some quotes that foreshadow who Pearl's father is in The Scarlet Letter?

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Quotes foreshadowing the identity of Pearl's father;

Peradventure the guilty one stands looking on at this sad spectacle, unknown of man, and forgetting that God sees him."

Behind the Governor and Mr. Wilson came two other guests--one, the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, whom the reader may remember as having taken a brief and reluctant part in the scene of Hester Prynne's disgrace....

Herein is the sinful mother happier than the sinful father.

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The Scarlet Letter