Both Uses of
mutable
in
The Scarlet Letter
- This outward mutability indicated, and did not more than fairly express, the various properties of her inner life.†
p. 84.8 *
- They looked neither older nor younger now; the beards of the aged were no whiter, nor could the creeping babe of yesterday walk on his feet to-day; it was impossible to describe in what respect they differed from the individuals on whom he had so recently bestowed a parting glance; and yet the minister's deepest sense seemed to inform him of their mutability.†
p. 202.7
Definition:
capable of or tending to change in form, quality, or nature