List of Illustrations

Drawn by Mary Hallock Foote and Engraved by A. V. S. Anthony. The
ornamental head-pieces are by L. S. Ipsen.

	Page
The Custom-House	1
The Prison Door	49
Vignette,—Wild Rose	51
The Gossips	57
“Standing on the Miserable Eminence”	65
“She was led back to Prison”	78
“The Eyes of the wrinkled Scholar glowed”	87
The Lonesome Dwelling	93
Lonely Footsteps	99
Vignette	104
A touch of Pearl’s baby-hand	113
Vignette	118
The Governor’s Breastplate	125
“Look thou to it! I will not lose the child!”	135
The Minister and Leech	148
The Leech and his Patient	165
The Virgins of the Church	172
“They stood in the noon of that strange splendor”	185
Hester in the House of Mourning	195
Mandrake	211
“He gathered herbs here and there”	213
Pearl on the Sea-Shore	217
“Wilt thou yet forgive me?”	237
A Gleam of Sunshine	249
The Child at the Brook-Side	257
Chillingworth,—“Smile with a sinister meaning”	287
New England Worthies	289
“Shall we not meet again?”	311
Hester’s Return	320

The Custom House