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So Roger Chillingworth — the man of skill, the kind and friendly physician — strove to go deep into his patient's bosom, delving among his principles, prying into his recollec- tions, and probing everything with a cautious touch, like a treasure seeker in a dark cavern. Few secrets can escape an investigator, who has opportunity and license to undertake such a quest, and skill to follow it up. A man bur- dened with a secret should especially avoid the intimacy of his physician. If the latter po...ssess native sagacity, and a nameless something more, — let us call it intuition ; if he show no intru- 176 THE LEECH sive egotism, nor disagreeably prominent char^ acteristics of his own ; if he have the power, which must be born with him, to bring his mind into such affinity with his patient's, that this last shall unawares have spoken what he imagines himself only to have thought ; if such revelations be received without tumult, and ac- knowledged not so often by an uttered sympa- thy as by silence, an inarticulate breath, and here and there a word, to indicate that all is under- stood ; if to these qualifications of a confidant be joined the advantages afforded by his recog- nized character as a physician, — then, at some inevitable moment, will the soul of the sufferer be dissolved, and flow forth in a dark but trans- parent stream, bringing all its mysteries into the daylight.
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