They looked first at each other and then into the grim captain 's face . There they stood in the first hour of wedlock , while the idle pleasures of which their companions were the emblems had given place to the sternest cares of life , personified by the dark Puritans . But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high as when its glow was chastened by adversity . `` Youth , '' said Endicott , `` ye stand in an evil case -- thou and thy maiden-wife . Make ready presently , for I am minded that ye shall both have a token to remember your wedding-day . '' `` Stern man , '' cried the May-lord , `` how can I move thee ? Were the means at hand , I would resist to the death ; being powerless , I entreat . Do with me as thou wilt , but let Edith go untouched . '' `` Not so , '' replied the immitigable zealot . `` We are not wont to show an idle courtesy to that sex which requireth the stricter discipline . -- What sayest thou , maid ? Shall thy silken bridegroom suffer thy share of the penalty besides his own ? '' `` Be it death , '' said Edith , `` and lay it all on me . '' Truly , as Endicott had said , the poor lovers stood in a woeful case . Their foes were triumphant , their friends captive and abased , their home desolate , the benighted wilderness around them , and a rigorous destiny in the shape of the Puritan leader their only guide . Yet the deepening twilight could not altogether conceal that the iron man was softened . He smiled at the fair spectacle of early love ; he almost sighed for the inevitable blight of early hopes . `` The troubles of life have come hastily on this young couple , '' observed Endicott . `` We will see how they comport themselves under their present trials ere we burden them with greater . If among the spoil there be any garments of a more decent fashion , let them be put upon this May-lord and his Lady instead of their glistening vanities .
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