The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


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CHAPTER III  
TOM presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by an open  
window in a pleasant rearward apartment, which was bedroom,  
breakfast-room, dining-room, and library, combined. The balmy summer  
air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur  
of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting  
--for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap. Her  
spectacles were propped up on her gray head for safety. She had thought  
that of course Tom had deserted long ago, and she wondered at seeing him  
place himself in her power again in this intrepid way. He said: "Mayn't  
I go and play now, aunt?"  
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What, a'ready? How much have you done?"  
It's all done, aunt."  
Tom, don't lie to me--I can't bear it."  
I ain't, aunt; it IS all done."  
Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence. She went out to see  
for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent.  
of Tom's statement true. When she found the entire fence whitewashed,  
and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even  
a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable.  
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