Final answer:
The question pertains to a scene from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel 'The Scarlet Letter', where Chillingworth discovers a mark on Dimmesdale's chest that confirms his suspicions about Dimmesdale's secret sin. The available text does not match the specific scene, hence a direct answer based on the given excerpts cannot be provided.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question refers to a discovery made by Chillingworth while Dimmesdale is in a state of deep sleep. The text does not directly come from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, in which the character Roger Chillingworth makes a significant discovery about Arthur Dimmesdale, revealing a secret that Dimmesdale has been hiding. The passage that is relevant to this question would typically describe Chillingworth discovering a mark on Dimmesdale's chest, which confirms his suspicions about the minister's secret sin and his connection to Hester Prynne's child, Pearl.
However, since the provided text does not match the specific scene from The Scarlet Letter and instead contains multiple excerpts from other literary works or hypothetical scenarios unrelated to Chillingworth or Dimmesdale, a direct answer cannot be provided based on these extracts. To answer the question appropriately, one would need to reference the specific chapter or passage from The Scarlet Letter in which Chillingworth makes his discovery during Dimmesdale's slumber.