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1  Aunt Polly took it, held it up.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  Aunt Polly felt a sudden pang of remorse.
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3  "It's a bad sign," said Aunt Polly, gravely.
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4  Aunt Polly placed small trust in such evidence.
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5  He searched Aunt Polly's face, but it told him nothing.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
6  A measured, muffled snore issued from Aunt Polly's chamber.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
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7  Aunt Polly paused, perplexed, and Tom looked for healing pity.
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8  His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh.
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9  Aunt Polly was tender far beyond her wont, in her goodnight to Sid and Mary.
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10  There sat Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, and Joe Harper's mother, grouped together, talking.
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11  Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick.
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12  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.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  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.
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14  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.
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15  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.
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16  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.
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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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