Pero ell enraonava a tot drap amb Amy Lawrence sobre la paorosa tempesta de l'illa, i li deia com el llamp esfondra el gran sicomor «fent-ne estelles», mentre ell «n'estava a uns quants pams». -Oh!
"Yes, every one that's friends to me--or wants to be"; and she glanced ever so furtively at Tom, but he talked right along to Amy Lawrence about the terrible storm on the island, and how the lightning tore the great sycamore tree "all to flinders" while he was "standing within three feet of it."