'It Is of Yonder Miserable Man That I Would Speak'

Old roger chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will. This unhappy person had effected such a transformation by devoting himself for seven years to the constant analysis of a heart full of torture. He analyzed and gloate over the scarlet letter burned on hester prynne's bosom. Here was another ruin, the responsibility of which came partly home to her.