mysterious charm. He did notventure again until he had found it, and by that time the other boys were tiredand ready to rest. They gradually wandered apart, dropped into the dumps,and fell to gazing longingly across the wide river to where the village lay drowsingin the sun. Tom found himself… … 136 TOM SA WYER. himself out of temptation by driving the other boys together and joining them. But Joes spirits had gone down almost beyond resurrection. He was so home-sick that he could hardly endure the misery of it. The tears lay very near thesurface. Huck was melancholy, too. Tom was…
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