The Death of Roger Chillingworth

Roger Chillingworth was a brilliant acquisition. He soon manifested his familiarity with the ponderous and imposing machinery of antique physic. This learned stranger was exemplary as regarded at least the outward forms of a religious life. Early after his arrival had chosen for a spiritual guide to reverend Mr. Dimmsdale. The young divine, whose scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly ordained apostle. His form grew emaciated, his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it. Such was the prospect that his dawning light would be extinguished all untimely when Roger Chilling

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