The Relationship Between Mr. Dimmesdale and the Mysterious Old Physician

A portion of the community had laterally begun to take its own view of the relation betwixt Mr. Dimmesdale and the mysterious old physician. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion that Reverend Arthur Dimmsdale, like many other personages of special sanctity, was haunted by Satan's emissary in the guise of Roger Chillingworth. The people looked with an unshaken hope to see the minister come forth of the conflict transfigured which he would unquestionably win. But they could justify their prejudice against him by no factor argument worthy of serious refutation. And it is sad to think of a perchance through which he must struggle toward his triumph.

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