Young Goodman Brown and Other Hawthorne Short Stories

What died the congregation do to address the proble of the veil?

Line 232-237. The minister black veil

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The elders of the church were sent to discuss it with him.

"Yet, though so well acquainted with this amiable weakness, no individual among his parishioners chose to make the black veil a subject of friendly remonstrance. There was a feeling of dread, neither plainly confessed nor carefully concealed, which caused each to shift the responsibility upon another, till at length it was found expedient to send a deputation of the church, in order to deal with Mr. Hooper about the mystery, before it should grow into a scandal."

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The Minister's Black Veil