The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-06-23
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ing everything with a cautious touch,
like a treasure seeker in dark cavern.
After time, at a hint from Roger
ChilEngworth, the friends of Mr.. Dim
mesdale effected an arrangement by
which the two were lodged in the same
house, so that every ebb and flow of the
minister's life tide might pass under the
eye of his anxious and attached physi-
clan. There was much joy throughout
the town when this greatly desirable OBJ
ject was attained. 1t was held to be the
best possible measure for the young
clergyman's welfare, unless, indeed, as
often urged by such as felt authorized
to do so, he had selected some one of the
many blooming damsels, spiritually de-
voted to him, to become his devoted
wife. This latter step, however, there
was no present prospect that Arthur
Dimmesdale would be prevailed upon to
take; he rejected all suggestions of the
kind, as if priestly celibacy were one of
his articles of church discipline. Doomed
by his own choice, therefore, as Mr..
Dimmesdale so evidently was, to eat his
unsavory morsel always at another's
board, and endure the lifelong chill
which must be his lot who seeks to warm
himself only at another's freside, it tru-
ly seemed that this sagacious, expert
enced, benevolent old physician, with
his concord of paternal and reverential
love for the young pastor, was the very
man of all mankind to be constantly
within reach of his voice.
The new abode of the two friends was
with pious widow of good social rank,
who dwelt in a house covering pretty
nearly the site on which the venerable
structure of Kings chapel has since been
built. It had the graveyard, originally
Isaac Johnson's home field, on one side,
and so was well adapted to call up serious
reflections, suited to their respective en-
Payments, in both minister and man of
physic. The motherly care Of the good
widow assigned to Mr.. Dimmesdale a
front apartment, with a sunny exposure.
and heavy window curtains to create
noontide shadow when desirable. The
walls were hung around with tapestry,
said to be from the Gobelin looms, and
at all events representing the Scriptural
story of David and Bathsheba, and
Nathan the Prophet, in colors still I'M
faded, but which made the fair woman
of the scene almost as gri1nly picturesque
as the woe denouncing seer.
Here the pale clergyman piled up his
library, rich with parchment bound
folios of the fathers, and the lore of
rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which
the Protestant divines, even while they
vilifed and decried that class of writer's,
were yet constrained often to avail
themselves. On the other side of the
house old Roger Chillingworth ar
ranged his study and laboratory; not
such as a modern man of science would
reckon even tolerably complete, but
provided with distilling apparatus and
the means of compromising drugs and
chemicals, which the practiced alchem-
list knew well how to turn to purpose.
With such commodiousness of situation,
these two learned persons sat themselves
down, each in his own domain, yet IA
miliarly passing from one apartment to
the other and bestowing a mutual and
not injurious inspection into each others
business