"She wondered what sort
of herbs they were, which the old man was so sedulous to gather. Would not the
earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with
poisonous shrubs, of species hitherto unknown, that would start up under his
fingers? Or might it suffice him, that every wholesome growth should be
converted into something deleterious and malignant at his touch?"
This is a reflection of inside from the outside. The ugly person here is referring to Roger Chillingworth. Nathaniel Hawthorne intentionally used words like evil, poisonous, and malignant to describe him, building up the connection between his deformity and his evilness, which is a dark romantic element.
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