Important Quotations Explained
1. The
Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize
me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering
how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and
so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old
rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But
Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band
of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and
be respectable. So I went back.
2. I
hadn't had a bite to eat since yesterday, so Jim he got out some
corn-dodgers and buttermilk, and pork and cabbage and greens—there
ain't nothing in the world so good when it's cooked right—and whilst
I eat my supper we talked and had a good time. . . .We said there
warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped
up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy
and comfortable on a raft.
3. It
was a close place. I took . . . up [the letter I'd written to Miss
Watson], and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd
got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied
a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All
right then, I'll go to hell”—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts
and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and
never thought no more about reforming.
4. Tom
told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen
of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine
would, and maybe get us all killed besides. So I was satisfied,
and said we would waltz in on it.
5. But
I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest,
because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and
I can't stand it. I been there before.
