The denizens of Salem stand outside the great oak door of the prison waiting for the prisoner to emerge. It is ancient door by now, studded with spikes and stained with age, a foreboding portal to the grim justice of the Puritanical magistrate. By the door, there is a wild rosebush, from which the author symbolically plucks a single of its flowers for the reader. Hawthorne hopes that.....
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