THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 35 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 35 THE reader may rest satisfied that Tom s and Huck s windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg. So vast a sum all in actual cash seemed next to incredible. It was talked about gloated over glorified until the reason of many of the citizens tottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement. Every haunted house in St. Petersburg and the neighboring villages was dissected plank by plank and its foundations dug up and ransacked for hidden treasure -- and not by boys but men -- pretty grave unromantic men too some of them. Wherever Tom and Huck appeared they were courted admired stared at. The boys were not able to remember that their remarks had possessed weight before but now their sayings were treasured and repeated everything they did seemed somehow to be regarded as remarkable they had evidently lost the power of doing and saying commonplace things moreover their past history was raked up and discovered to bear marks of conspicuous originality. The village paper published biographical sketches of the boys. -321- The Widow Douglas put Huck s money out at six per cent. and Judge Thatcher did the same with Tom s at Aunt Polly s request. Each lad had an income now that was simply prodigious -- a dollar for every week-day in the year and half of the Sundays. It was just what the minister got -- no it was what he was promised -- he generally couldn t collect it. A dollar and a quarter a week would board lodge and school a boy in those old simple days -- and clothe him and wash him too for that matter. Judge Thatcher had conceived a great opinion of Tom. He said that no commonplace boy would ever have got his daughter out of the cave. When Becky told her father in strict confidence how Tom had taken her whipping at school the Judge was visibly moved and when she pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that whipping from her shoulders to his own the Judge said with a .
