The Scarlet Letter - Chapter 10 - The Leech and His Patient

In which the curious and watchful physician delves with a miner’s persistence into the secret maladies of a troubled clergyman’s soul and body, observing the interplay of spiritual anguish and physical ailment with a gaze both clinical and inscrutable. Meanwhile, an impish child dances among graves, embodying a wild freedom that defies earthly law and casts a subtle light on the heavy burdens silently borne beneath the scarlet letter.