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=Lesson 4 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer= toc

The adventure of the day mightily tormented Tom's dreams that night. Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four times it wasted to nothingness in his fingers as sleep forsook him and wakefulness brought back the hard reality of his misfortune. As he lay in the early morning recalling the incidents of his great adventure, he noticed that they seemed curiously subdued and far away—somewhat as if they had happened in another world, or in a time long gone by. Then it occurred to him that the great adventure itself must be a dream! There was one very strong argument in favor of this idea—namely, that the quantity of coin he had seen was too vast to be real. He had never seen as much as fifty dollars in one mass before, and he was like all boys of his age and station in life, in that he imagined that all references to "hundreds" and "thousands" were mere fanciful forms of speech, and that no such sums really existed in the world. He never had supposed for a moment that so large a sum as a hundred dollars was to be found in actual money in any one's possession. If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.

But the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking them over, and so he presently found himself leaning to the impression that the thing might not have been a dream, after all. This uncertainty must be swept away. He would snatch a hurried breakfast and go and find Huck. Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy. Tom concluded to let Huck lead up to the subject. If he did not do it, then the adventure would be proved to have been only a dream.

"Hello, Huck!"

"Hello, yourself."

Silence, for a minute.

"Tom, if we'd 'a' left the blame tools at the dead tree, we'd 'a' got the money. Oh, ain't it awful!"

"'Tain't a dream, then, 'tain't a dream! Somehow I most wish it was. Dog'd if I don't, Huck."

"What ain't a dream?"

"Oh, that thing yesterday. I been half thinking it was."

"Dream! If them stairs hadn't broke down you'd 'a' seen how much dream it was! I've had dreams enough all night—with that patch–eyed Spanish devil going for me all through 'em—rot him!"

"No, not rot him. FIND him! Track the money!"

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=Lesson 5 - Julius Caesar=

The meteors whizzing in the sky are so bright that I can read by them. //(he opens the letter and reads)// “Brutus, you’re sleeping. Wake up and look at yourself. Is Rome going to … etc. Speak, strike, fix the wrongs!” “Brutus, you’re sleeping. Wake up.” I’ve noticed many such calls to action left where I would find them. “Is Rome going to … etc.” What does this mean? Will Rome submit to one man’s power? My ancestors drove Tarquin from the streets of Rome when he was pronounced a king. “Speak, strike, fix it!” Is this asking me to speak and strike? Oh, Rome, I promise you, if you’re meant to receive justice, you’ll receive it by my hand!
 * BRUTUS**

Lucius enters

Sir, fifteen days of March have gone by.
 * LUCIUS**

Brutus: That's good. Go to the gate; somebody is knocking. (Lucius exits) Ever since Cassius first incited me against Caesar, I haven't slept. Between the first proposal of a dreadful thing and the actual doing of it, all the interim is like a shade or a hideous dream. A man's guiding spirit and the limbs of his body become locked in a fierce debate; and then the individual, like a little kingdom, suffers from a sort of insurrections.

Lucius enters


 * LUCIUS**: Sir, your brother-in-law Cassius is at the door and wants to see yo.


 * BRUTUS**: Is he alone?


 * LUCIUS**: No, sir - Their hats are pulled down around their ears, and their faces are half covered by their cloaks, so there is no way for me to recognize them by any of their features.


 * BRUTUS**: Let them come in. (Lucius exits) It is the faction that opposes Caesar. Oh, conspiracy, are you ashamed to show your dangerous face even by night, when evils are most free? Well then, by day, where will you find a cavern dark, enough to hide your monstrous visage? Don't look for a cavern conspiracy. Hide yourself in smiles and affability, for if you go walking undisguised not even Erebus is dark enough to hid you from being dropped.

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