His heart was heavy, and he said with a disdain which he did not feel that it wasn't anything to spit like Tom Sawyer; but another boy said, "Sour grapes!" and he wandered away a dismantled hero.
Son cor n'era feixuc, i digué, amb un menyspreu que no sentia, que no valia res l'escupir com Tom Sawyer. Pero un altre minyó digué: -És que són verdes!- I ell hagué de fer-se fonedís, heroi descavalcat.