Entry 16
"Yet, if the clergyman were rightly viewed, his strength seemed not of the body. It might be spiritual and imparted to him by angelical ministrations. It might be the exhilaration of that potent cordial which is distilled only in the furnace-glow of earnest and long-continued thought" (Hawthorne, Chapter 22).
From these words, you can catch the real impact Hester's suggestion of leaving and beginning anew had on Dimmesdale. His body language and composition has changed completely. Hawthorne is saying that it isn't a matter of medicine that has given him his new strength--it was the saving grace of Hester Prynne's words.
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