The Scarlet Letter

11. What does Pearl say about the physician? What does the child sense that Dimmesdale, although older, does not?

chapters 8-10

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Pearl calls him the black man and says he has already gotten the minister's soul. She realizes that he is innately evil and that he is after Dimmesdale, in the sense that he wants to learn Dimmesdale's darkest secrets.