La tia Polly s'agenolla i prega per Tom d'una manera tan colpidora, tan dalerosa, i amb una amor tan immensa en les seves paraules i en la seva caduca veu tremolenca, que ell va negar-se en llagrimes altra vegada, ben abans que ella hagués acabat.
Aunt Polly knelt down and prayed for Tom so touchingly, so appealingly, and with such measureless love in her words and her old trembling voice, that he was weltering in tears again, long before she was through.