Hester Prynne's Love for Roger Chillingworth

Hester Prynne was now fully sensible of the deep injury, for which she was responsible to this unhappy man. The very contiguity of his enemy beneath whatever mask the latter might conceal himself was enough to disturb the magnetic sphere of a being so sensitive as Arthur Dimmesdale. She doubted not that the continual presence of Roger Chillingworth, the secret poison of his malignity infecting all their air about him, with the minister's physical and spiritual infirmities had been turned to a cruel purpose. By means of them, the sufferer's conscience had been kept in an irritated state, the tendency of which was not to cure by wholesome pain, but to dis

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