Tom estigué a punt de cercar aixopluc sota una mentida; pero aleshores veié dues llargues trenes de cabell groguís penjant damunt una esquena, i les reconegué, en virtut d'aquella electrica simpatia de l'amor; i al costat d'aquella personeta hi havia l'únic lloc vacant de la banda de les noies.
Tom was about to take refuge in a lie, when he saw two long tails of yellow hair hanging down a back that he recognized by the electric sympathy of love; and by that form was _the only vacant place_ on the girls' side of the school-house.