The Secrets of Men's Hearts

These revelations, unless i greatly err, are meant merely to promote the intellectual satisfaction of all intelligent beings who will stand waiting on that day to see the dark problem of this life made plain. A knowledge of men's hearts will be needful to the plate a solution of that problem. And i conceive moreover that the hearts holding such miserable secrets as you speak of, will yield them up at that last day, not with reluctance, but with a joy unutterable. Then why not reveal them here? Asked roger chillingworth, glancing quietly aside at the minister. Why should not the ones sooner avail themselves of this unutterable solace they mostly do? Said the clergyman,.