Chapter 3, 'The Recognition'
Dimmesdale's first speech: 'I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer!' — agonized hypocrisy in plain view.
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From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The young minister is introduced as eloquent, pale, and tremulous — already marked by the secret guilt he urges Hester to confess.
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