Since Tom's harassed conscience had managed to drive him to the lawyer's house by night and wring a dread tale from lips that had been sealed with the dismalest and most formidable of oaths, Huck's confidence in the human race was wellnigh obliterated.
Ja que la turmentada consciencia de Tom havia pogut menar-lo a la casa del curial, de nit, i arrencar una temuda historia de llavis segellats amb el jurament més llobrec i formidable, la confiança de Huck en la raça humana estava arran d'esvair-se.