Roger Chillingworth’s Journal

Doctor Roger Chillingworth July 21st 1646 The ministers health is fading. I alarm that if I do non happen upon a termination to his ailment soon that he may die, leaving me without a pregnant affected role. Maybe it is Hester Prynne that is the problem. She is the evil influence that is taking the last little here and now of life history he has left. I am ashamed to think that I was raze minutely involved with her piecey years ago. I employ to be a good man but our terrible marriage ceremony corrupted me. All I buzz off left is Mr. Dimmesdale. I have made him a concoction using plants I found on tombstones.I hope that these plants, which have grown from buried human nerve centers get out have an effect on him. If he dies then I testament no longer have a patient to perform experiments on so I leave behind have to slow my medical look into until I assure some other ailing individual. It will be heavy(p) to find another individual with such a strong heart and a sim ilar aura to the pastor. Also, a victim with enough assets to gestate for my expenses. He knows that I have profited from his ailments and his weak frame. I do not see the Pastors recovery as a likely scenario.I see that he is heading to his grave so I need to take as much energy from him before he passes on. Maybe it is the demon squirt Pearl that is causing his imminent death. She has her own sickness which I well-tried to cure previously, but was unable. The deep rooted evil in the sister is something even the most skilled physician washbowlnot remove with any medicine. You can see the malevolent spirit in her eyes. I wonder if the nonplus of this child is the devil himself. Hester is too ashamed to name her father even years after the incident. One day I will find out how this child came to be.Perhaps I will go out once more to the forest tonight and perform a ritual to try to find out the true father. I must find out soon, I am getting to be an old man and I fear my time in this town is limited if I cannot find another host. I shall take the pastor for a walk on the bank tomorrow while I secretly gather ingredients for a spell. He has not been walking as well but I will still insist that he come. I must search into this topic further. If he questions me as he usually does, I will snap off him some medicine to calm him down.I have a draught I have made that will slow him down for a few days giving me the opportunity to control the situation. My intelligence is far prize to that of Arthurs and I can use that to my advantage. It is true that he is a man of purity but he is also naive. He is the perfect patient in every way. I hope that my medicines can extend his life for at least another year. He is a very rarefied case, I must find out more before he leaves my care. I will continue practising on him until he expires. ,Roger Chillingworth