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Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let _me_ whitewash a little."
He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the public square of the village, where two "military" companies of boys had met for conflict, according to previous appointment.
Presently he picked up a straw and began trying to balance it on his nose, with his head tilted far back; and as he moved from side to side, in his efforts, he edged nearer and nearer toward the pansy; finally his bare foot rested upon it, his pliant toes closed upon it, and he hopped away with the treasure and disappeared round the corner.
Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the sugar-bowl--a sort of glorying over Tom which was wellnigh unbearable.
And such a luxury to him was this petting of his sorrows, that he could not bear to have any worldly cheeriness or any grating delight intrude upon it; it was too sacred for such contact; and so, presently, when his cousin Mary danced in, all alive with the joy of seeing home again after an age-long visit of one week to the country, he got up and moved in clouds and darkness out at one door as she brought song and sunshine in at the other.
When he entered the kitchen presently, with both eyes shut and groping for the towel with his hands, an honorable testimony of suds and water was dripping from his face.
The teacher, a grave, elderly man, interfered; then turned his back a moment and Tom pulled a boy's hair in the next bench, and was absorbed in his book when the boy turned around; stuck a pin in another boy, presently, in order to hear him say "Ouch!" and got a new reprimand from his teacher.
CHAPTER VABOUT half-past ten the cracked bell of the small church began to ring, and presently the people began to gather for the morning sermon.
Presently he bethought him of a treasure he had and got it out.
Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.
Then there was a wild yelp of agony and the poodle went sailing up the aisle; the yelps continued, and so did the dog; he crossed the house in front of the altar; he flew down the other aisle; he crossed before the doors; he clamored up the home-stretch; his anguish grew with his progress, till presently he was but a woolly comet moving in its orbit with the gleam and the speed of light.
The discourse was resumed presently, but it went lame and halting, all possibility of impressiveness being at an end; for even the gravest sentiments were constantly being received with a smothered burst of unholy mirth, under cover of some remote pew-back, as if the poor parson had said a rarely facetious thing.
Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school.
But they soon grew feeble, and presently died wholly away.
Presently the boy began to steal furtive glances at the girl.
For a time the girl refused to notice; but her human curiosity presently began to manifest itself by hardly perceptible signs.
The tick escaped from Tom, presently, and crossed the equator.
Presently Becky began to suspect.
Tom presently began to drift insensibly back into the concerns of this life again.
The sand began to work, and presently a small black bug appeared for a second and then darted under again in a fright.
He presently halted under a great elm, blew an answering blast, and then began to tiptoe and look warily out, this way and that.
Presently Tom said:"Now, if you've got the hang, go it lively!"
Presently Tom seized his comrade's arm and said: "Sh!""What is it, Tom?"
Presently Huckleberry whispered with a shudder: "It's the devils sure enough.
Presently, when the moon emerged again, Injun Joe was standing over the two forms, contemplating them.
Presently he whispered:"Huck, Muff Potter don't know it.
Presently a dog set up a long, lugubrious howl just outside--within ten feet of them.
But presently the temptation rose up strong again and the boys agreed to try, with the understanding that they would take to their heels if the snoring stopped.
Presently Jeff Thatcher hove in sight, and Tom's face lighted; he gazed a moment, and then turned sorrowfully away.
They presently separated to meet at a lonely spot on the river-bank two miles above the village at the favorite hour--which was midnight.
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