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Quotation from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pigweed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation”
The Scarlet Letter, Chapter I, The Prison-Door
The opening chapter sets the prison beside a patch of harsh natural growth before introducing the rose-bush.
Citation: "Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pigweed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation" — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter I, The Prison-Door. (id the-scarlet-letter-q1)
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
