What are some quotes from The Scarlet Letter about how the Rev. Dimmesdale is perceived as a good person in the community and viewed by everyone until...

It is an
ironic beginning that finds the lonelyimprisoned behind the formidable door of Puritan justice
and the Reverendamong the observers. As the stranger inquires about the woman on the scaffold of
shame, a townsman replies,

"You must needs be a
stranger in this region, friend....else you would surely have hear of Mistress Hester Prynne and
her evil doings. She haith raised a great scandal, I promise you, in godly Master
Dimmesdale's church. (Ch.3)

When Hester is
summoned to 's Hall to be questioned and to question little, Pearl refuses to cite her catechism
and leads old Reverend Wilson to believe that she has failed in her motherly duties. So, the
Governor decides that Pearl should be taken from Hester. Naturally, this greatly distresses
Hester, so Dimmesdale speaks up for her, saying that he concurs with Hester that God has given
her this child to remind her of her sin, for Pearl is her sin incarnate, her personal
scarlet...