{"id":"01KG17AP6PBY2TKX1RP84XCCNW","cid":"bafkreibh4qvsixwypqgapuulykw5tieok6d4vcmkxe2rdqtx7gyonu7l5q","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":8770,"extracted_at":"2026-01-28T02:36:10.656Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534","start_line":8712,"text":"CHAPTER XXXV\r\n\r\n\r\nThe reader may rest satisfied that Tom’s and Huck’s windfall made a\r\nmighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg. So vast a\r\nsum, all in actual cash, seemed next to incredible. It was talked\r\nabout, gloated over, glorified, until the reason of many of the citizens\r\ntottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement. Every “haunted”\r\nhouse in St. Petersburg and the neighboring villages was dissected,\r\nplank by plank, and its foundations dug up and ransacked for hidden\r\ntreasure—and not by boys, but men—pretty grave, unromantic men, too,\r\nsome of them. Wherever Tom and Huck appeared they were courted, admired,\r\nstared at. The boys were not able to remember that their remarks had\r\npossessed weight before; but now their sayings were treasured and\r\nrepeated; everything they did seemed somehow to be regarded as\r\nremarkable; they had evidently lost the power of doing and saying\r\ncommonplace things; moreover, their past history was raked up and\r\ndiscovered to bear marks of conspicuous originality. The village paper\r\npublished biographical sketches of the boys.\r\n\r\nThe Widow Douglas put Huck’s money out at six per cent., and Judge\r\nThatcher did the same with Tom’s at Aunt Polly’s request. Each lad had\r\nan income, now, that was simply prodigious—a dollar for every weekday in\r\nthe year and half of the Sundays. It was just what the minister got—no,\r\nit was what he was promised—he generally couldn’t collect it. A dollar\r\nand a quarter a week would board, lodge, and school a boy in those old\r\nsimple days—and clothe him and wash him, too, for that matter.\r\n\r\nJudge Thatcher had conceived a great opinion of Tom. He said that no\r\ncommonplace boy would ever have got his daughter out of the cave. When\r\nBecky told her father, in strict confidence, how Tom had taken her\r\nwhipping at school, the Judge was visibly moved; and when she pleaded\r\ngrace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that\r\nwhipping from her shoulders to his own, the Judge said with a fine\r\noutburst that it was a noble, a generous, a magnanimous lie—a lie that\r\nwas worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast to\r\nbreast with George Washington’s lauded Truth about the hatchet! Becky\r\nthought her father had never looked so tall and so superb as when he\r\nwalked the floor and stamped his foot and said that. She went straight\r\noff and told Tom about it.\r\n\r\nJudge Thatcher hoped to see Tom a great lawyer or a great soldier some\r\nday. He said he meant to look to it that Tom should be admitted to the\r\nNational Military Academy and afterward trained in the best law school\r\nin the country, in order that he might be ready for either career or\r\nboth.\r\n\r\nHuck Finn’s wealth and the fact that he was now under the Widow Douglas’\r\nprotection introduced him into society—no, dragged him into it, hurled\r\nhim into it—and his sufferings were almost more than he could bear. The\r\nwidow’s servants kept him clean and neat, combed and brushed, and they\r\nbedded him nightly in unsympathetic sheets that had not one little spot\r\nor stain which he could press to his heart and know for a friend. He had\r\nto eat with a knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate;\r\nhe had to learn his book, he had to go to church; he had to talk so\r\nproperly that speech was become insipid in his mouth; whithersoever he\r\nturned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him\r\nhand and foot.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG176GXJ0WQTMW2FARK2Z0ZS","peer_label":"CHAPTER XXXV","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG0K71QZ8KK7RGEGSNTB5534","peer_label":"tom_sawyer.txt","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG17AP6JGNP914Q2HNJDQ53E","peer_label":"Chunk 2","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-28T02:36:10.930Z","ts":"2026-01-28T02:36:12.493Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}