The Importance of Age and Wisdom in the Ministry of Hester

The minister's own will, and Hester's will, and the fate that grew between them had wrought this transformation. It was the same town as heretofore, but the same minister returned not from the forest. He might have said to the friends who greeted him, I am not the man for whom you take me. But his inner man gave him other evidences of a revolution in the sphere of thought and feeling. At every step he was incited to do something strange, wild, wicked thing or other. The instillment thereof into her mind would probably have caused this aged sister down at once, as by the effect of an intensely poisonous infusion. There was perhaps fortunate disorder

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