Chapter 3
The Fence Repaid and the New Girl's Pansy
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1 On a drowsy summer afternoon, Aunt Polly nods over her knitting with the cat in her lap
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2 Aunt Polly stops dead before the whole thirty-yard fence, whitewashed coat over coat
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3 Aunt Polly lifts her finger to Heaven as she ends her lecture on virtuous effort.
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4 Tom stops mid-stride in the street at the sight of a new girl in the Thatcher garden
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5 Tom leans on the Thatcher fence and thinks he has lost the new girl.
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6 At the supper table, Aunt Polly raises her hand to strike Tom a second time.
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7 At dusk, Tom sits alone at the edge of a weathered log raft before the vast river
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8 Tom lies under the window of the Adored Unknown, hands clasped over her wilted pansy
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9 A maid throws up the sash and empties a basin of water onto Tom lying under the window
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10 Soaked by the maid's basin of water, Tom springs up from the pansy bed under the Thatcher window.
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11 Tom stands by the tallow dip in his nightshirt, holding up his soaked clothes.
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