And the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale’s best discerning friends, as we have intimated, very reasonably imagined that the hand of Providence had done all this, for the purpose⁠—besought in so many public, and domestic, and secret prayers⁠—of restoring the young minister to health. But⁠—it must now be said⁠—another portion of the community had latterly begun to take its own view of the relation betwixt Mr.