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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Capítulo 20, Página 4
The
same
sign.
“Susan
Harper,
did
you
do
this?”
Another
negative.
The
next
girl
was
Becky
Thatcher.
Tom
was
trembling
from
head
to
foot
with
excitement
and
a
sense
of
the
hopelessness
of
the
situation.
“Rebecca
Thatcher”
[Tom
glanced
at
her
face—it
was
white
with
terror]—“did
you
tear—no,
look
me
in
the
face”
[her
hands
rose
in
appeal]—“did
you
tear
this
book?”
A
thought
shot
like
lightning
through
Tom’s
brain.
He
sprang
to
his
feet
and
shouted—“I
done
it!”
The
school
stared
in
perplexity
at
this
incredible
folly.
Tom
stood
a
moment,
to
gather
his
dismembered
faculties;
and
when
he
stepped
forward
to
go
to
his
punishment
the
surprise,
the
gratitude,
the
adoration
that
shone
upon
him
out
of
poor
Becky’s
eyes
seemed
pay
enough
for
a
hundred
floggings.
Inspired
by
the
splendor
of
his
own
act,
he
took
without
an
outcry
the
most
merciless
flaying
that
even
Mr.
Dobbins
had
ever
administered;
and
also
received
with
indifference
the
added
cruelty
of
a
command
to
remain
two
hours
after
school
should
be
dismissed—for
he
knew
who
would
wait
for
him
outside
till
his
captivity
was
done,
and
not
count
the
tedious
time
as
loss,
either.
Tom
went
to
bed
that
night
planning
vengeance
against
Alfred
Temple;
for
with
shame
and
repentance
Becky
had
told
him
all,
not
forgetting
her
own
treachery;
but
even
the
longing
for
vengeance
had
to
give
way,
soon,
to
pleasanter
musings,
and
he
fell
asleep
at
last
with
Becky’s
latest
words
lingering
dreamily
in
his
ear—
“Tom,
how
could
you
be
so
noble!”
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