ABSTRACT
Language has changed. Consider the following example from The Scarlet Letter,
written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and originally published in 1850 (Hawthorne,
Children have always a sympathy in the agitations of those connected with
them; always, especially, a sense of any trouble or impending revolution, of
whatever kind, in domestic circumstances; and therefore Pearl, who was the
gem on her mother’s unquiet bosom, betrayed, by the very dance of her
spirits, the emotions which none could detect in the marble passiveness of
Hester’s brow.
