Boas aberturas de bons romances -- As aventuras de Tom Sawyer

(O meu exemplar sumiu, o que não é grave, uma vez que a tradução era deplorável. Vale-me, mais uma vez, a Internet.)

"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service -- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well.

Mark Twain, The adventures of Tom Sawyer