Mister Dimesdale - A Priest's Life

Never since mister dimesdale first set his foot on the new england shore had he exhibited such energy as was seen in the gait and air with which he kept his pace. The mother country need not have been ashamed to see these foremost men of an actual democracy adopted into the house of peers or made the privy council of the sovereign. Next in order to the magistrates came the young and eminently distinguished divine from whose lips the religious discor of the anniversary was expected.