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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

CHAPTERVIII

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He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog--like a very dog.

She would be sorry some day--maybe when it was too late.

Ah, if he could only die TEMPORARILY! But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Tom presently began to drift insensibly back into the concerns of this life again.

What if he turned his back, now, and disappeared mysteriously?
What if he went away--ever so far away, into unknown countries beyond the seas--and never came back any more! How would she feel then! The idea of being a clown recurred to him now, only to fill him with disgust.


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