The Scarlet Letter

Who "had no right" in The Scarlet Letter?

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John Wilson had no right.

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He looked like the darkly engraved portraits which we see prefixed to old volumes of sermons, and had no more right than one of those portraits would have to step forth, as he now did, and meddle with a question of human guilt, passion, and anguish.

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The Scarlet Letter