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This picture is loosely based on the character, Pearl, the illegitimate child of Hester Prynne, in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne wrote, "It was a look so intelligent, yet inexplicable, so perverse, sometimes so malicious....She seemed rather an airy sprite, which ...would flit away with a mocking smile."