1 As night approached, it proving impossible to quell her insubordination by rebuke or threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailer, thought fit to introduce a physician.
2 The physician, as he had a fair right to be termed, next bestowed his attention on the mother.
3 The elders, the deacons, the motherly dames, and the young and fair maidens of Mr. Dimmesdale's flock, were alike importunate that he should make trial of the physician's frankly offered skill.
4 He listened in silence, and finally promised to confer with the physician.
5 "Good men ever interpret themselves too meanly," said the physician.
6 In truth, he was startled, if not shocked, to find this attribute in the physician.
7 So the minister, and the physician with him, withdrew again within the limits of what their Church defined as orthodox.
8 A man burdened with a secret should especially avoid the intimacy of his physician.
9 But, it must now be said, another portion of the community had latterly begun to take its own view of the relation betwixt Mr. Dimmesdale and the mysterious old physician.
10 But Old Roger Chillingworth, too, had perceptions that were almost intuitive; and when the minister threw his startled eyes towards him, there the physician sat; his kind, watchful, sympathising, but never intrusive friend.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 11 "Even in the graveyard here at hand," answered the physician, continuing his employment.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 12 "Yet some men bury their secrets thus," observed the calm physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 13 There was another pause, and the physician began anew to examine and arrange the plants which he had gathered.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 14 Then, to speak more plainly," continued the physician, "and I crave pardon, sir, should it seem to require pardon, for this needful plainness of my speech.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 15 This expression was invisible in Mr. Dimmesdale's presence, but grew strongly evident as the physician crossed the threshold.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT