The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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No ailment was found, and he investigated again.

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Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart.

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Everything was auspicious.

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Tom withered him with derision!

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Speak out, my boy—don't be diffident.

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Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it,

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His heart was heavy, and he said with a disdain which he did not feel that it wasn't anything to spit like Tom Sawyer;

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The mayor of the village, in delivering the prize to the author of it, made a warm speech in which he said that it was by far the most "eloquent" thing he had ever listened to,

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He believed he had taxed the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity

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Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile... for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments.

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Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; they were mourned... the departed were the talk of the whole town, and the envy of all the boys, as far as this dazzling notoriety was concerned.

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As the service proceeded, the clergyman drew such pictures of the graces, the winning ways, and the rare promise of the lost lads that every soul there, thinking he recognized these pictures, felt a pang in remembering that he had persistently blinded himself to them always before, and had as persistently seen only faults and flaws in the poor boys.

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and this seemed to render the pervading silence and sense of loneliness the more profound.

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The next day the doctors were back; Tom had relapsed.

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She was half sorry her sagacity had miscarried, and half glad that Tom had stumbled into obedient conduct for once.

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Three dreadful days and nights dragged their tedious hours along,

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Huck's face lost its tranquil content, and took a melancholy cast.