The Scarlet Letter

What detail is given to suggest the baby was born in jail?

Hester's baby, chapter two

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She bore in her arms a child, 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 acquaintance only with the grey twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison.

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The Scarlet Letter