The Scarlet Letter Middle
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- They mostly do. Why should a wretched man, guilty, we will say, of murder, prefer to keep the dead corpse buried in his own heart, rather than fling it forth at once, and let the universe take care of it!
- Then why not reveal them here? Why should not the guilty ones sooner avail themselves of this unutterable solace?
- Yet some men bury their secrets thus.
- It may be so,But, now, I would ask of my well-skilled physician, whether, in good sooth, he deems me to have profited by his kindly care of this weak frame of mine?
- Wouldst thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better—can be more for God's glory, or man's welfare—than God's own truth? Trust me, such men deceive themselves!
- Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you!
- I do verily believe it,But still, methinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it all up in his heart.
- You inquired of me, a little time agone.my judgment as touching your health
- Is Hester Prynne the less miserable, think you, for that scarlet letter on her breast?
- “Not to thee! But, if it be the soul's disease, then do I 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 art thou, that meddlest in this matter?—that dares thrust himself between the sufferer and his God?”
- Thus, a sickness, a sickness, a 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 evil? How may this be, unless you first lay open to him the wound or trouble in your soul?”
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