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On the way to school Tom met Becky. He came up to her and said:
“I’m sorry, Becky, for all I have done. Please, make up, won't you?"
The girl stopped and looked him scornfully in the face.
“I beg you to let me alone, Mr Thomas Sawyer. I'll never speak to you
again."
She went away so quickly that Tom couldn't say anything. But he was very
angry. When he presently met her, he made an offending remark. Becky
answered in the same spirit. Then she remembered about the textbook and
waited impatiently to see him punished for it.
Poor girl, she did not know that she was in danger, too.
Thе master, Mr Dobbins, had wanted in his youth to become a doctor; but he
was too poor to study long, so he became only a village school-master. Every
day he look a book out of his desk and read in it. He kept the book under lock
and key. There was not a child in school who did not want to look at the book,
but the chance never came. Now as Becky was passing by the desk , which stood
near the door, she saw that the key was in the lock.
She looked around; saw that she was alone, and the next moment she had the
book in her hands. She couldn't understand the title of the book: Anatomy. So
she began to turn the pages. Presently she saw a coloured picture of a human
figure. At that moment a shadow fell on the page, and Tom Sawyer entered
the room and saw the picture. Becky wanted to close the book quickly, and
tore the picture across. She thrust the book into the desk, turned the key, and
burst into tears.
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Tom Sawyer; you know you're
going to tell on me, and, oh, what shall I do, what shall I do! I'll be whipped,
and I never was whipped at school."
And she ran away, crying.
School began. Tom was not interested in the lesson. From time to time he
looked at Becky and pitied her, though he did not want it. Presently the
teacher saw Tom's text-book and for a while the boy forgot about Becky. The
teacher began to whip Tom, Becky wanted for a moment to get up and tell
about Alfred Temple. But she made an effort and forced herself to keep still.
Tom was whipped and went back to his place calmly. He thought it was
possible he had spilled the ink without knowing it.
An hour passed. Then the master opened his desk and took out the book.
Tom looked at Becky. When he saw how frightened she looked, like a
helpless rabbit before a hunter's gun, he forgot his quarrel with her. Quick
something must be done to save her! Good! He had a brilliant idea - he would
seize the book and spring through the door! But the master had already opened
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