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Lawyer Giles
Another tavern patron, the Doctor comes with his fellow drinkers the Stage Agent and Lawyer Giles to visit Ethan Brand at the kiln. In contrast to Lawyer Giles, the ravages of alcohol have a more pronounced effect on the Doctor, now a brutal and savage man who gestures and speaks wildly. He also smokes and swears constantly. The Village Doctor’s education and title still earn him respect in the mountain towns, where many sick people still seek his counsel, despite the degradation of his character.
The Village Doctor Quotes in Ethan Brand
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Ethan Brand
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No mind, which has wrought itself by intense and solitary meditation into a high state of enthusiasm, can endure the kind of contact with low and vulgar modes of thought and feeling to which Ethan Brand was now subjected. It made him doubt—and, strange to say, it was a painful doubt—whether he had indeed found the Unpardonable Sin, and found it within himself. The whole question on which he had exhausted life, and more than life, looked like a delusion.
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The Village Doctor Quotes in Ethan Brand
The Ethan Brand quotes below are all either spoken by The Village Doctor or refer to The Village Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Ethan Brand
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No mind, which has wrought itself by intense and solitary meditation into a high state of enthusiasm, can endure the kind of contact with low and vulgar modes of thought and feeling to which Ethan Brand was now subjected. It made him doubt—and, strange to say, it was a painful doubt—whether he had indeed found the Unpardonable Sin, and found it within himself. The whole question on which he had exhausted life, and more than life, looked like a delusion.
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