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Том Сойер - обыкновенный американский мальчишка, увлекающийся и, по мнению взрослых, непослушный, неугомонный выдумщик, но и верный друг. Герой Марка Твена подкупает находчивостью и простодушием, предприимчивостью и любопытством. Приключения Тома помогают увидеть врожденную доброту мальчика, неподдельную жажду свободы и справедливости.
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2938"Give me liberty or give me death" speech, with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it.
2939A ghastly stage-fright seized him, his legs quaked under him and he was like to choke.
2940True, he had the manifest sympathy of the house but he had the house's silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy.
2941The master frowned, and this completed the disaster.
2942Tom struggled awhile and then retired, utterly defeated.
2943There was a weak attempt at applause, but it died early.
2944"The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" followed; also "The Assyrian Came Down," and other declamatory gems.
2945Then there were reading exercises, and a spelling fight. The meagre Latin class recited with honor.
2946The prime feature of the evening was in order, now--original "compositions" by the young ladies.
2947Each in her turn stepped forward to the edge of the platform, cleared her throat, held up her manuscript (tied with dainty ribbon), and proceeded to read, with labored attention to "expression" and punctuation.
2948The themes were the same that had been illuminated upon similar occasions by their mothers before them, their grandmothers, and doubtless all their ancestors in the female line clear back to the Crusades.
2949"Friendship" was one;
2950"Memories of Other Days";
2951"Religion in History";
2952"Dream Land";
2953"The Advantages of Culture";
2954"Forms of Political Government Compared and Contrasted";
2955"Melancholy";
2956"Filial Love";
2957"Heart Longings," etc., etc.
2958A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them.
2959No matter what the subject might be, a brain-racking effort was made to squirm it into some aspect or other that the moral and religious mind could contemplate with edification.
2960The glaring insincerity of these sermons was not sufficient to compass the banishment of the fashion from the schools, and it is not sufficient to-day; it never will be sufficient while the world stands, perhaps.
2961There is no school in all our land where the young ladies do not feel obliged to close their compositions with a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.
2962But enough of this.
2963Homely truth is unpalatable.
2964Let us return to the "Examination."
2965The first composition that was read was one entitled
2966"Is this, then, Life?"
2967Perhaps the reader can endure an extract from it:
2968"In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of festivity!
2969Imagination is busy sketching rose-tinted pictures of joy.
2970In fancy, the voluptuous votary of fashion sees herself amid the festive throng, 'the observed of all observers.'
2971Her graceful form, arrayed in snowy robes, is whirling through the mazes of the joyous dance; her eye is brightest, her step is lightest in the gay assembly.
2972"In such delicious fancies time quickly glides by, and the welcome hour arrives for her entrance into the Elysian world, of which she has had such bright dreams.
2973How fairy-like does everything appear to her enchanted vision!
2974Each new scene is more charming than the last.
2975But after a while she finds that beneath this goodly exterior, all is vanity, the flattery which once charmed her soul, now grates harshly upon her ear; the ball-room has lost its charms; and with wasted health and imbittered heart, she turns away with the conviction that earthly pleasures cannot satisfy the longings of the soul!" And so forth and so on.
2976There was a buzz of gratification from time to time during the reading, accompanied by whispered ejaculations of
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