The poor fellow had got the attorney to promise secrecy, but what of that? 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.
Sedert Toms bezwaard geweten hem in den laten avond naar het huis van den advocaat gedreven had en deze het huiveringwekkend verhaal had ontwrongen aan lippen, die door de vreeselijkste en geheimzinnigste eeden gesloten waren geweest, had Huck zijn vertrouwen in de menschheid voor eeuwig verloren.