The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne chapter 20, narrated by Isaac Birchall The minister cannot believe his luck. He is leaving the settlement and the prying eye of Chillingworth, and is heading to Europe with Hester and his daughter. Hester, thanks to her charity work, has become acquainted with some sailors who has agreed to take her, Pearl, and the minister with them back to Europe. The minister feels different, he does not recognise himself anymore, and wishes to say to everyone he passes that he left the other minister in the Forrest. He suddenly gets some blasphemous urges ; he wants to teach a group of children a bunch of curse words, he nearly tells an old woman that something questioning the immortality of the human soul, and he even ignores a young convert to his church, fearing that his current mental state will corrupt the girl. Before finally getting home, he runs in to mistress Hibbins, who tells him that she can sense the change in him, she knows that he has been into the Forrest, urging him only to let her know next time he wishes to go as « The Black Man » would be very keen to meet him. When he is finally home, he tells Chillingworth that he shall no longer need any of his physical treatments. Chillingworth, though determined to be the ruin of the minister, wants to keep the man alive, and become very sceptical and the sudden change in the in the minister. Mr Dimmesdale then runs off to his study to write a new sermon for the weekend service.
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