"All his strength and energy—all his vital and intellectual force—seemed at once to desert him;"
"Leaving this discussion apart, we have a matter of business to communicate to the reader. At old Roger Chillingworth’s decease (which took place within the year)..."
Finally Chillingworth died too. First he just lost all his strength, he got weaker, than all his life faded away. I think again Dimmesdale is the reason that he dies. Again Chillingworth does not have any victim, any sins to get nourished from, and so he finally 'starves' to death.
Again - refer back the the idea of the leech. Is Hawthorne suggesting that evil is like this? Without sinners evil would disappear?
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