1 "Good men ever interpret themselves too meanly," said the physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 2 He listened in silence, and finally promised to confer with the physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 3 In truth, he was startled, if not shocked, to find this attribute in the physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 4 A man burdened with a secret should especially avoid the intimacy of his physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 5 The physician, as he had a fair right to be termed, next bestowed his attention on the mother.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IV. THE INTERVIEW 6 So the minister, and the physician with him, withdrew again within the limits of what their Church defined as orthodox.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 7 But, it must now be said, another portion of the community had latterly begun to take its own view of the relation betwixt Mr. Dimmesdale and the mysterious old physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 8 As night approached, it proving impossible to quell her insubordination by rebuke or threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailer, thought fit to introduce a physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IV. THE INTERVIEW 9 The elders, the deacons, the motherly dames, and the young and fair maidens of Mr. Dimmesdale's flock, were alike importunate that he should make trial of the physician's frankly offered skill.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 10 As his studies, at a previous period of his life, had made him extensively acquainted with the medical science of the day, it was as a physician that he presented himself and as such was cordially received.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 11 As not only the disease interested the physician, but he was strongly moved to look into the character and qualities of the patient, these two men, so different in age, came gradually to spend much time together.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 12 My old studies in alchemy," observed he, "and my sojourn, for above a year past, among a people well versed in the kindly properties of simples, have made a better physician of me than many that claim the medical degree.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IV. THE INTERVIEW 13 It was understood that this learned man was the physician as well as friend of the young minister, whose health had severely suffered of late by his too unreserved self-sacrifice to the labours and duties of the pastoral relation.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER 14 This idea was countenanced by the strong interest which the physician ever manifested in the young clergyman; he attached himself to him as a parishioner, and sought to win a friendly regard and confidence from his naturally reserved sensibility.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 15 Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 16 After a time, at a hint from Roger Chillingworth, the friends of Mr. Dimmesdale 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 physician.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneGet Context In IX. THE LEECH 17 There was an aged handicraftsman, it is true, who had been a citizen of London at the period of Sir Thomas Overbury's murder, now some thirty years agone; he testified to having seen the physician, under some other name, which the narrator of the story had now forgotten, in company with Dr. Forman, the famous old conjurer, who was implicated in the affair of Overbury.
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