? ? ? ? Huck's eyes glowed.
? ? ? ? "That's bully. Plenty bully enough for me. Just you gimme the hundred dollars and I don't want no di'monds."
? ? ? ? "All right. But I bet you I ain't going to throw off on di'monds. Some of 'em's worth twenty dollars apiece- there ain't any, hardly, but's worth six bits or a dollar."
? ? ? ? "No! Is that so?"
? ? ? ? "Cert'nly- anybody'll tell you so. Hain't you ever seen one, Huck?"
? ? ? ? "Not as I remember."
? ? ? ? "O, kings have slathers of them."
? ? ? ? "Well, I don't know no kings, Tom."
? ? ? ? "I reckon you don't. But if you was to go to Europe you'd see a raft of 'em hopping around."
? ? ? ? "Do they hop?"
? ? ? ? "Hop?- you granny! No!"
? ? ? ? "Well what did you say they did, for?"
? ? ? ? "Shucks, I only meant you'd see 'em- not hopping, of course- what do they want to hop for?- but I mean you'd just see 'em- scattered around, you know, in a kind of a general way.
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