Puritans = black shadow, grim, grisly, with a sword...
Not the kind of person you invite to a wedding or a birthday party.
Chapter 2 of the scarlet letter
What does this tell you about the puritan people?
"there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into the sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the puritanic code of law"
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