The Importance of Embroidery

The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared in the first place like a black shadow emerging into sunshine. The grim and grisly presence of the town beetle 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. Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman whom he thus drew forward until on the threshold of the prison door,. She repelled him by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will

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