这位青年牧师的身体就是这种状况,当罗杰·齐灵渥斯初到镇上的时候,情况已经相当危险,这年轻人的曙光眼见就要过早地殒灭了。齐灵渥斯首次登场时,谁也说不出所以然,简直象是从天而降或从地狱钻出,这就具有一种神秘色彩,从而很容易被夸大成奇迹。如今无人不晓他是一名医生!人们注意到他采集药草、摘取野花、挖掘植根,还从树上折取细校,常人眼中的无用之物,他似是熟知其隐含的价值。人们听到他提起坎奈姆·狄戈比爵士①和其他名人——他们的科学造诣简直被视作超自然的,但他却说是他的笔友或熟人。他既然在学术界地位如此之高,为什么要到这里来呢?他的天地理应在大城市,在这蛮荒野地中又能寻找到什么呢?为了回答这些疑问,于是就有了谣言的土壤,不管一些风传多么离奇,也为一些明智的人所接受:说是上天创造了一个绝对的奇迹,把一位著名的医学博士,从一所德意志大学里,凭空摄到了丁梅斯代尔先生书斋的门前。而一些具有更加聪慧的信仰的人明知,上天为实现其目的,不必求助于所谓奇迹的插曲来达到舞台效果,但也乐于看到罗杰·齐灵握斯是假上天之手才及时到来的。
This idea was countenancedby the strong interest which the physician ever manifested in the young clergyman; he attached himself to him as a parishioner, and sought to win a friendly regard and confidence from his naturally reserved sensibility. He expressed great alarm at his pastor's state of health, but was anxious to attempt the cure, and, if early undertaken, seemed not despondentof a favourable result. The elders, the deacons, the motherly dames, and the young and fair maidens, of Mr. Dimmesdale's flock, were alike importunatethat he should make trial of the physician's frankly offered skill. Mr. Dimmesdale gently repelled their entreaties.
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