Chapter 9, 'The Leech'
Chillingworth installed as Dimmesdale's physician; his face darkens visibly.
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From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The cuckolded scholar degenerates into a demonic figure whose vengeance becomes the novel's truest sin.
Chapter 10, 'The Leech and His Patient'
The famous moment he opens the sleeping minister's vestment — 'a wild look of wonder, joy, and horror.'
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Hester sees what he has become: 'a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil.'
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