1 Aunt Polly took it, held it up.
2 Aunt Polly felt a sudden pang of remorse.
3 "It's a bad sign," said Aunt Polly, gravely.
4 Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence.
5 He searched Aunt Polly's face, but it told him nothing.
6 A measured, muffled snore issued from Aunt Polly's chamber.
7 Aunt Polly paused, perplexed, and Tom looked for healing pity.
8 Aunt Polly was tender far beyond her wont, in her goodnight to Sid and Mary.
9 There sat Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, and Joe Harper's mother, grouped together, talking.
10 Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick.
11 There is no telling what might have happened, now, but luckily the concern passed out of Aunt Polly's face and she came to Tom's relief without knowing it.
12 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.
13 Aunt Polly entered in time to see him throw a few double summersets, deliver a final mighty hurrah, and sail through the open window, carrying the rest of the flower-pots with him.
14 They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone.
15 In another moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a tingling rear, Tom was whitewashing with vigor, and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field with a slipper in her hand and triumph in her eye.
16 Aunt Polly knelt down and prayed for Tom so touchingly, so appealingly, and with such measureless love in her words and her old trembling voice, that he was weltering in tears again, long before she was through.
17 Breakfast over, Aunt Polly had family worship: it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.
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