. Until her marriage to Alymer, Georgiana had looked at her birthmark as a good and natural thing. These feelings were shared with her pervious lovers who's explanation of this birthmark was that "some fairy, at her birth-hour, had laid her tiny hand upon the infant's cheek, and left this impress there, in token of the magic endowments that were to give her such sway over all hearts" (Hawthorne 30). It was said that "Many a desperate swain would have risked his life for the privilege of pressing his lips to the mysterious hand" (Hawthorne 30). It can be said that the mark was a mystery to her suitors which gave her power over their hearts, this power she possess
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