The Scarlet Letter

What detail suggests the baby was born in jail?

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he daylight seemed foreign to the baby's eyes,

"...a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison."