THE reader may rest satisfied that Tom’s
and Huck’s windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St.
Petersburg. So vast a sum, all in actual cash, seemed next to incredible. It
was talked about, gloated over, glorified, until the reason of many of the
citizens tottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement. Every Soccer
Jersey “haunted” house in St. Petersburg and the neighboring villages
was dissected, plank by plank, and its foundations dug up and ransacked for
hidden treasure — and not by boys in the but men – pretty grave, unromantic
men, too, some of them. Wherever Tom and Huck appeared they were courted,
admired, stared at. The boys were not able to remember that their remarks had
possessed weight before; but now their sayings were treasured and repeated;
everything they did seemed somehow to be regarded as remarkable; they had
evidently lost the power of doing and saying commonplace things; moreover, their
past history was raked up and discovered to bear marks of conspicuous
originality. The village paper published biographical sketches of the boys.
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put Huck’s money out at six per cent., and Judge in Thatcher did the same with
Tom’s at Aunt Polly’s request. Each lad had an income, now, that was simply
prodigious — a dollar for every week-day in the year and half of the Sundays.
It was just what the minister got — no, it was what he was promised — he
generally couldn’t collect it. A dollar and a quarter a week would board,
lodge, and school a boy in those old simple days — and clothe him and wash him,
too, for that matter.
Judge Thatcher had conceived a great
opinion of Tom. He said that no commonplace boy would ever have got his
daughter out of the cave. When Becky told her father, in strict confidence, how
Tom had taken her whipping at school, the Judge was visibly moved; and when she
pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom in the new had told in order to
shift that whipping from her shoulders to his own, the Judge said with a fine
outburst that it was a noble, a generous, a magnanimous lie — a lie that was
worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast to breast with
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Washington’s lauded Truth about the hatchet! Becky thought her father had never
looked so tall and so superb as when he walked the floor and stamped his foot
and said that. She went straight off and told Tom about it.
Judge Thatcher hoped to see Tom a great
lawyer or a great soldier some day. He said he meant to look to it that Tom
should be admitted to the National Military Academy and afterward trained in
the best law school in the country, in order that he might be ready for either
career or both.Huck Finn’s wealth and the fact that he in a was now under
the Widow Douglas’ protection introduced him into society — no, dragged him
into it, hurled him into it — and his sufferings were almost more than he could
bear. The widow’s servants kept him clean and neat, combed and brushed, and
they bedded him nightly in unsympathetic sheets that had not one little spot or
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had to eat with a knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate; he had
to learn his book, he had to go to church; he had to talk so properly that
speech was become insipid in his mouth; whithersoever he turned, the bars and
shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.