The Leech and His Patient

The Leech and His Patient by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chapter 10. Old Roger Chillingworth throughout life had been calm in temperament,. kindly though not of warm affections; but ever and in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man. He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart like a miner searching for gold or rather like a sexton delving into a grave. The soil where this dark miner was working had perchance shown indications that encouraged him. This man said he, at one such moment to himself, pure as they deem him all spiritual as he seems, hath inherited a strong animal nature from his father or his mother.

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