“The black veil, though it covers only our pastor’s face, throws its influence over his whole person, and makes him ghostlike from head to foot. Do you not feel it so?”
“Truly do I,” replied the lady; “and I would not be alone with him for the world. I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself!”
Mr. Hooper's first service with the Black Veil
Mr. Hooper at a funeral
“Why do you look back?”
“I had a fancy,” replied she, “that the minister and the maiden’sspirit were walking hand in hand.”
When Mr. Hooper came, the first thing that their eyes rested on was the same horrible black veil, which had added deeper gloom to the funeral, and could portend nothing but evil to the wedding
Mr. Hooper at a wedding
The whole village of Milford talked of little else than Parson Hooper’s black veil...That, and the mystery concealed behind it, supplied a topic for discussion between acquaintances meeting in the street.
“If I hide my face for sorrow, there is cause enough,” he merely replied; “and if I cover it for secret sin, what mortal might not do the same?”
“Never! It cannot be!”
“Have patience with me, Elizabeth!” cried he, passionately. “Donot desert me, though this veil must be between us here on earth.
Mr. Hooper and Elizabeth fighting over the veil
“Lift the veil but once, and look me in the face."
“Then farewell!”
Mr. Hooper on his death bed
"When man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!”
Connor Smith November 11, 2018
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