Read the excerpt relating to reverend mr. Wilson from chapter 3 of the scarlet letter. He looked like the darkly engraved portraits which we see prefixed to old volumes of sermons; and had no more right than one of those portraits would have, to step forth, as he now did, and meddle with a question of human guilt, passion, and anguish. Which trait of reverend mr. Wilson does hawthorne develop in this excerpt from the chapter? courage arrogance remorsefulness humility.