Hester tells Dimmesdale about Chillingsworth. At first he was upset, but then he
got over it. She tells him that he needs to get away from Chillingsworth's
torment. They decide that they are going to go to Europe together with Pearl.
"The minister looked at her, for an instant, with all that violence of passion,
which—intermixed, in more shapes than one, with his higher,
purer, softer qualities—was, in fact, the portion of him which the Devil claimed, and through which he sought to win
the rest. Never was there a blacker or a fiercer frown, than
Hester now encountered. For the brief space that it lasted, it was a dark 
transfiguration." This was Dimmesdale thinking he was so  



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