4. "So Pearl - the elf-child, - the demon offspring, as some people, up to that epoch, persisted in considering her, - became the richest heiress of her day, in the
New World. Not improbably, this circumstance wrought a very material change in
the public estimation; and, had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl, at
a marriageable period of life, might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of
the devoutest Puritan among them all. But, in no time after the physician's death,
the wearer of the scarlet letter disappeared, and Pearl along with her." Chapter 24
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Book is scarlet letter. What does this quote mean?