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"the infant was worthy to have been brought forth in Eden; worthy to have been left there, to be the plaything of the angels, after the world's first parents were driven out. The child had a native grace which does not invariably coexist with faultless beauty;" This quote is important because it shows how graceful and out of place pearl is in this circumstance.

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"and if, in any of her changes, she had grown fainter or paler, she would have ceased to be herself---it would have been no longer Pearl!" This quote shows that she is only herself because of the beauty she was given because she had nothing else.

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"After testing both smiles and frowns, and proving that neither mode of treatment possessed any calculable influence, Hester was ultimately compelled to stand aside, and permit the child to be swayed by her own impulses."

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"Her only real comfort was when the child lay in the placidity of sleep." This is important because it shows how Hester knows only then that Pearl is actually there.

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"Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world. An imp of evil, emblem and product of sin, she had no right among christened infants." This shows how Pearl is not actually of the purity upon which she shows physically, for she was born of a sin.

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"The truth was that the little Puritans, being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother of the child;" This quote establishes the idea that they had done this all with no explanatory reason, even with being who they were.

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"O Father in Heaven----if Thou art still my Father---- what is this being which I have brought into the world!" This quote shows how unsure and insecure Hester feels about Pearl, how she doesn't know how to look at her.

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"The very first thing which she had noticed in her life, was---what?---not the mother's smile, responding to it, as other babies do, by that faint, embryo smile to the little mouth, remembered so doubtfully afterwards, and with such fond discussion whether it were indeed a smile." This quote shows that Pearl had been born into an unfortunate incident and had not any response to show that she was normal.

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"O, I am your little Pearl" This quote shows the purity of Pearl and how she has not experienced anything really worth living.

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