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Emmett

16 September, 11:43

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| There was very much the same solemnity of

demeanour on the part of the spectators; as

befitted a people amongst whom religion and

law were almost identical, and in whose

character both were so thoroughly interfused,

that the mildest and the severest acts of

public discipline were alike made venerable

and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the

sympathy that a transgressor might look for,

from such bystanders at the scaffold.

- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne