let you into the gang if you ain’t respectable, you know.”
Huck’s joy was quenched.
“Can’t let me in, Tom? Didn’t you let me go for a pirate?”
“Yes, but that’s different. A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is — as a general thing.
In most countries they’re awful high up in the nobility — dukes and such.”
“Now, Tom, hain’t you always ben friendly to me? You wouldn’t shet me out, would you, Tom? You wouldn’t do that, now, would you, Tom?”
“Huck, I wouldn’t want to, and I don’t want to — but what would people say? Why, they’d