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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Capítulo 33, Página 6
“And
kill
them?”
“No,
not
always.
Hive
them
in
the
cave
till
they
raise
a
ransom.”
“What’s
a
ransom?”
“Money.
You
make
them
raise
all
they
can,
off’n
their
friends;
and
after
you’ve
kept
them
a
year,
if
it
ain’t
raised
then
you
kill
them.
That’s
the
general
way.
Only
you
don’t
kill
the
women.
You
shut
up
the
women,
but
you
don’t
kill
them.
They’re
always
beautiful
and
rich,
and
awfully
scared.
You
take
their
watches
and
things,
but
you
always
take
your
hat
off
and
talk
polite.
They
ain’t
anybody
as
polite
as
robbers—you’ll
see
that
in
any
book.
Well,
the
women
get
to
loving
you,
and
after
they’ve
been
in
the
cave
a
week
or
two
weeks
they
stop
crying
and
after
that
you
couldn’t
get
them
to
leave.
If
you
drove
them
out
they’d
turn
right
around
and
come
back.
It’s
so
in
all
the
books.”
“Why,
it’s
real
bully,
Tom.
I
believe
it’s
better’n
to
be
a
pirate.”
“Yes,
it’s
better
in
some
ways,
because
it’s
close
to
home
and
circuses
and
all
that.”
By
this
time
everything
was
ready
and
the
boys
entered
the
hole,
Tom
in
the
lead.
They
toiled
their
way
to
the
farther
end
of
the
tunnel,
then
made
their
spliced
kite-strings
fast
and
moved
on.
A
few
steps
brought
them
to
the
spring,
and
Tom
felt
a
shudder
quiver
all
through
him.
He
showed
Huck
the
fragment
of
candle-wick
perched
on
a
lump
of
clay
against
the
wall,
and
described
how
he
and
Becky
had
watched
the
flame
struggle
and
expire.
The
boys
began
to
quiet
down
to
whispers,
now,
for
the
stillness
and
gloom
of
the
place
oppressed
their
spirits.
They
went
on,
and
presently
entered
and
followed
Tom’s
other
corridor
until
they
reached
the
“jumping-off
place.”
The
candles
revealed
the
fact
that
it
was
not
really
a
precipice,
but
only
a
steep
clay
hill
twenty
or
thirty
feet
high.
Tom
whispered:
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