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Nascent Drama

She took them to a bedchamber and said:

"Now wash and dress yourselves. Here are two new suits of clothes -- shirts, socks, everything complete. They're Huck's -- no, no thanks, Huck -- Mr. Jones bought one and I the other. But they'll fit both of you. Get into them. We'll wait -- come down when you are slicked up enough."

Then she left.
 
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Chapter XXXIV
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HUCK said: "Tom, we can slope, if we can find a rope.
 
The window ain't high from the ground."
 
"Shucks! what do you want to slope for?"
 
"Well, I ain't used to that kind of a crowd.
 
"Tom," said he, "auntie has been waiting for you all the afternoon.
 
Mary got your Sunday clothes ready, and everybody's been fretting about you.
 
Say -- ain't this grease and clay, on your clothes?"
 
"Now, Mr. Siddy, you jist 'tend to your own business.
 
What's all this blow-out about, anyway?"
 
"It's one of the widow's parties that she's always having.
 
This time it's for the Welshman and his sons, on account of that scrape they helped her out of the other night.
 
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