F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 24

you almost love then Tom. Then he arrived to courting a lady-her
(Mrs. it corrects) it was not nevertheless a lady, she was only the
a mechanic's daughter of small he/she wants to say--families of mechanic have anybody
being standing in society, You see-and this cut deep in his/her mother
pride. And her, you see, it was not rather sure where she was standing in
society, you see, and it are not able for the world has his/her pride
decreased;  then she discarded poor Tom. And the girl has been you/he/she went out
of the way, and Tom is become without a penny and such shipwreck of
dissipation that any respectable house can contain him. It is a rigid
old family that the family of Swiggs! His/her mother holds him/it inserting in
and out in jail, only to be rid of him. You are a curious mother;  but
when I think as he looks and it acts, as I wonder me she holds him/it
in the jail? I had to put twice there it--I had! (Mrs. Flamingo
it becomes emphatic.) But remembering that that a friend of the house him
both, I taken the pity on him, killed him/it, and I lent him two
dollars. And there is honor--I have the great faith in honor-in Tom that, me
honestly he/she believes, while offering the devil doesn't find him/it in one of his
adaptations, will pay all the damages, despite me the reputation put
of my house in danger with him some nights since, it was forced to
you call three police officers to send forth him/it, and resolved that he doesn't owe
again darkens my door."






I CAPITULATE III.

IN THAT THE READER IS INTRODUCED WITH A VARIOUS PORTRAIT.





Tom has passed a night without rest in the jail. He has dreamed of it bottled
snakes, with eyes that wickedly flash to him;  of ardent-tailed snakes
winding all on him;  of devils in forms he doesn't have language to
describes;  of the waltz of death in which he danced to the mansion
of Mrs. Flamingo;  and of his/her mother, (an expensive name never in his
thoughts,) who banished him/it to this region of vice, for that that her
esteemed a moral weakness. Further above in his/her dream he saw a vision,
a horrible vision that was not less less than a dispute for his/her person