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In reference to Puritan children: “…deporting themselves in such grim fashions as the Puritanic nature would permit; playing going to church, per chance, or at scourging Quakers…”

More open disdain.

Read this in high school and didn’t remember Hawthorne having such a disdain for the puritans!