"the grim rigidy that petrified... in hand" pg 47, l 6.
Hawthorne here describes visually the scene: people are terrified by the person in the prison, as if s/he were a bloody murderer. To me, this sentences shows the mentality of that period: something against the Church was harshly punished and considered impure, criminal. But the great contrast is developed in the next pages: the ferocious outlaw is a beautiful girl, fierce and proud despite people's believes, and whose outstanding beauty leaves crowd without many words.
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