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1  Presently Becky began to suspect.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to school.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  I acted mighty mean today, Becky, and I'm so sorry.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  Tom decided that he could be independent of Becky Thatcher now.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  And he kept drifting about to find Becky and lacerate her with the performance.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  Every time he stole a glance at the girls' side of the room Becky's face troubled him.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  He began to hate himself for throwing away the chance Becky had offered for a reconciliation.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  He started to school and had the luck of coming upon Becky Thatcher at the head of Meadow Lane.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  Becky snatched at the book to close it, and had the hard luck to tear the pictured page half down the middle.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  Becky, glancing in at a window behind him at the moment, saw the act, and moved on, without discovering herself.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  In the afternoon Becky Thatcher found herself moping about the deserted schoolhouse yard, and feeling very melancholy.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  And it maddened him to see, as he thought he saw, that Becky Thatcher never once suspected that he was even in the land of the living.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  When Jeff arrived, Tom accosted him; and "led up" warily to opportunities for remark about Becky, but the giddy lad never could see the bait.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  Becky hesitating, Tom took silence for consent, and passed his arm about her waist and whispered the tale ever so softly, with his mouth close to her ear.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
16  It seemed to Becky, in her hot resentment, that she could hardly wait for school to "take in," she was so impatient to see Tom flogged for the injured spelling-book.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
17  Becky resumed her picture inspections with Alfred, but as the minutes dragged along and no Tom came to suffer, her triumph began to cloud and she lost interest; gravity and absentmindedness followed, and then melancholy; two or three times she pricked up her ear at a footstep, but it was a false hope; no Tom came.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
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