"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old black man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already. Come away, mother or he will catch you! But he cannot catch little Pearl!"
Pearl with infantile naivety says a real truth: the doctor has captured the minister. This capture is not practical but moral. Chillingworth succeeded to be one of the closest people to Dimmesdale and in this way he can influence his mind very easy making the priest torment himself. Plus Pearl shows a kind of craftiness that isn’t common to the children of her age.
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