The Scarlet Letter

What quotes from chapter 5 concerning Hester's return to her hometown after being released from prison?

What quotes from chapter 5 concerning Hester's return to her hometown after being released from prison?

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There are quotes all over chapter 5:

Hester's term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine.

Therefore, first allowing her to pass, they pursued her at a distance with shrill cries, and the utterance of a word that had no distinct purport to their own minds, but was none the less terrible to her, as proceeding from lips that babbled it unconsciously. It seemed to argue so wide a diffusion of her shame,

Hester Prynne, therefore, did not flee. On the outskirts of the town, within the verge of the peninsula, but not in close vicinity to any other habitation, there was a small thatched cottage.