The Serious Sympathy Between Soul and Body

Reverend Mr Dimmsdale, Nunday, fell into a deep deep slumber sitting in his chair with a large black letter volume open before him on the table. The profound depth of the minister's repose was some more remarkable, inasmuch as he was one of those persons whose sleep ordinarily is as light as fitful and as easily scared away as a small bird hopping on a twig. To such an unwanted remoteness had his spirit now withdrawn into itself, that he stirred not in his chair when old Roger Chiningworth came into the room. He advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment

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