The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips.
he seated himself on its outer edge and contemplated the dreary vastness of the stream, wishing, the while, that he could only be drowned, all at once and unconsciously, without undergoing the uncomfortable routine devised by nature
Like many other simple–hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning.
She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy
she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:
"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
Hang the boy
damn it
The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board–fence, and disappeared over it.
Парень тут же бросился бежать, вскарабкался на высокий дощатый забор и исчез за ним.
the peril was desperate
the danger of being hit with the switch (the peril - опасность) was going to happen almost immediately and it would hurt (was desperate)
Hand me that switch.
She wants a twig in order to spank Tom.
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