The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By Twain, Mark

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Title:	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author:	Twain, Mark
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Chapter I. ?TOM!? No answer. ?TOM!? No answer. ?What?s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!? No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for ?style,? not service?she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear.