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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.
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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.

    By Mark Twain

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a setting which would serve as inspiration for some of his most famous works. After an apprenticeship at a local printer’s shop, he worked as a typesetter and contributor for a newspaper run by his brother Orion. Before embarking on a career as a professional writer, Twain spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi and as a miner in Nevada. In 1865, inspired by a story he heard at Angels Camp, California, he published “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” earning him international acclaim for his abundant wit and mastery of American English. He spent the next decade publishing works of travel literature, satirical stories and essays, and his first novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). In 1876, he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a novel about a mischievous young boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River. In 1884 he released a direct sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which follows one of Tom’s friends on an epic adventure through the heart of the American South. Addressing themes of race, class, history, and politics, Twain captures the joys and sorrows of boyhood while exposing and condemning American racism. Despite his immense success as a writer and popular lecturer, Twain struggled with debt and bankruptcy toward the end of his life, but managed to repay his creditors in full by the time of his passing at age 74. Curiously, Twain’s birth and death coincided with the appearance of Halley’s Comet, a fitting tribute to a visionary writer whose steady sense of morality survived some of the darkest periods of American history.

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      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6. - Mark Twain

      ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, By Twain, Part 6.

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.

      by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.

      Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      Release Date: June 30, 2004 [EBook #7198]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOM SAWYER ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

      BY MARK TWAIN

      (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

      Part 6.

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      CHAPTER XXIII

      AT last the sleepy atmosphere was stirred—and vigorously: the murder trial came on in the court. It became the absorbing topic of village talk immediately. Tom could not get away from it. Every reference to the murder sent a shudder to his heart, for his troubled conscience and fears almost persuaded him that these remarks were put forth in his hearing as feelers; he did not see how he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this gossip. It kept him in a cold shiver all the time. He took Huck to a lonely place to have a talk with him. It would be some relief to unseal his tongue for a little while; to divide his burden of distress with another sufferer. Moreover, he wanted to assure himself that Huck had remained discreet.

      Huck, have you ever told anybody about—that?

      'Bout what?

      You know what.

      Oh—'course I haven't.

      Never a word?

      Never a solitary word, so help me. What makes you ask?

      Well, I was afeard.

      Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn't be alive two days if that got found out. YOU know that.

      Tom felt more comfortable. After a pause:

      Huck, they couldn't anybody get you to tell, could they?

      Get me to tell? Why, if I wanted that halfbreed devil to drownd me they could get me to tell. They ain't no different way.

      "Well, that's all right, then. I reckon we're safe as long as we

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