品奇昂法官的缺点，他的自负，他的厚颜无耻的自私，完全不是出自虚构，因而也是霍桑笔下最真实的人物。

• The very limitations of Judge Pyncheon, his conceit, his thick-hided selfishness, made him the symbolical and so the most solidly real of all of Hawthorne's characters.