Pearl, insightful young girl that she is, warns her mother away from Chillingworth in Paragraph 23 of Chapter 10. She tells her mother Chillingworth is "the black man" which is another word for devil:
Hester Prynne, likewise, had involuntarily looked up, and all these four persons, old and young, regarded one another in silence, till the child laughed aloud, and shouted--"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old black man will catch you! He hath got hold of the minister already. Come away, mother or he will catch you! But he cannot catch little Pearl!"
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