1 But I, like a fool, never thought.
2 Then there was a season of waiting anxiety that weighed upon Huck's spirits like a mountain.
3 THE sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction.
4 Well, if they like it, Tom, all right; but I don't want to be a king and have only just a given name, like a nigger.
5 They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone.
6 He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image.
7 He had been months winning her; she had confessed hardly a week ago; he had been the happiest and the proudest boy in the world only seven short days, and here in one instant of time she had gone out of his heart like a casual stranger whose visit is done.
8 But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck.