The Sacrificial Scourge of Mister Dimesdale

The minister well knew, subtle but remorseful hypocrite, that he was the light in which his vague confession would be viewed. He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty cience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self acknowledged shame. By the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth and loathed the lie as few men ever did. Therefore, above all things else, he loathed his miserable self. His inward trouble drove him to practices more in accordance with the old, corrupted faith of rome than wiuth, the better light of the church in which he had been born and bred. In mister