Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-09-05
BEGUN TUESDAY, AUGUST 50.
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"a sickness. u sore place, if we may SO
call it. in your spirit, hath Immediately
its appropriate manifestation in your
bodily frame Would you therefore
that your physician heal the bodily cvilt
How may this be unless you first lay
open to him the wound or trouble in
your soulY'
"Nol not to theel not to an earthly
physicianr' cried Mr.. Dimmesdale pas
sionately, and turning his eyes, full and
bright and with kind of ferceness, on
old Roger Chillingworth Not to thee!
But if it be the souls disease, then do
commit myself to the one Physician Of
the soul! He, if it stand with his good
pleasure, can cure, or he can kill! Let
him do with me as in his justice and
wisdom he shall see good But who FRI
thou that ineddlest in this matter-that
dares thrust himself between the sufferer
and his Godg'
With frantic gesture he rushed out
Of the room
st is as well to have made this step
said Roger Chillingworth to himself,
looking after the minister with a grave
smile. "There is nothing lost. We
shall be friends again anon. But see
now, how passion takes hold upon this
man and hurrieth him out of himselfi
AS with one passion, so with anotherl
He hath done wild thing ere now, this
pious Master Dimmesdale. in the hot
passion Of his hearth
1t proved not difficult to re-establish
the intimacy Of the two companions on
the same footing and in the same degree
as heretofore. The young clergyman,
after a few hours of privacy, was sensi-
BILE that the disorder of his nerves had
hurried him into an unseemly outbreak
of temper, which there had been moth
ing in the physicians words to excuse or
palliate. He marveled, indeed, at the
violence with which he had thrust back
the kind old man when merely proffer-
ing the advice which it was his duty to
TO bestow and which the minister him
self had expressly sought With these
remorseful feelings, he lost no time in
making the amplest apologies, and be-
sought his friend to still continue the
care which, if not successful in restor-
ing him to health, had in all probability
been the means Of prolonging his feeble
existence to that hour Roger Chilling
worth readily assented, and went on
with his medical supervision Of the min
lister, doing his best for him in all good
faith, but always quitting the patients
apartment at the close of a professional
interview with mysterious and puzzled
smile upon his lips. This expression was
invisible in Mr. Dimmesdales presence.
but grew strongly evident as the physi-
clan crossed the threshold.
"A rare easel" he muttered. II must
needs look deeper into it. A strange
sympathy betwixt soul and body Were
/ it only for the arts sake l must search
this matter to the bottomw
1t came to pass not long after the scene
above recorded that the Reverend Mr.
Dimmesdale at monday and entirely un-
awares fell into deep, deep slumber
sitting in his chair, with a large black
letter volume open before him on the
table. 1t must have been a work Of
vast ability in the somniferous school Of
/ literature. The profound depth of the
minister's repose was the more remark
able 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 unwonted remoteness, however had
his spirit now withdrawn into itself,
that he stirred not in his chair when old
Roger Chillingworth, without any ex-
traordinary precaution. came into the
room. The physician advanced directly
in front of his patient, laid his hand
upon his bosom and thrust aside the
vestment that hitherto had always Gov
cred it even from the professional eye.
Then, indeed, Mr.. Dimmesdale shud-
dered and slightly stirred.
After a brief pause the physician
turned away.
But, with what wild look of wonder,
joy and horrorl With what a CHASTITY
rapture, as it We're, too mighty to be OK
pressed only by the eye and features.
and therefore bursting forth through
the whole ugliness of his figure, and
malSing itself even riotously manifest
by the extravagant gestures with which
he threw mp his arms toward the ceiling
and stamped his foot upon the floor
Had man seen old Roger Chilling.
worth at that moment of his ecstasy
he would have had no need to ask how
satan COMFORTS himself when a precious
human soul is lost to heaven and won
into his kingdom.
But what distinguished the physicians
ecstasy from satan's was the trait OF
wonder in It'll
CHAPTER TX.
THE INTERIOR or A HEART.