translation.ca: Quan Becky digué al seu pare, en estricta confiança, com, a l'escola, Tom havia rebut les fuetades en lloc d'ella, el jutge en fou visiblement commogut; i, quan ella demana gracia per la gran mentida que Tom havia dit per transportar el fueteig de l'espatlla d'ella a la seva, el jutge digué, en un bell esclat, que aquella era una mentida noble, generosa, magnanima: una mentida digna de redreçar el cap i transitar per la historia de bracet amb la lloada Veritat de George Washington sobre la destral!
translation.en: When Becky told her father, in strict confidence, how Tom had taken her whipping at school, the Judge was visibly moved; and when she pleaded grace for the mighty lie which Tom had told in order to shift that whipping from her shoulders to his own, the Judge said with a fine outburst that it was a noble, a generous, a magnanimous lie--a lie that was worthy to hold up its head and march down through history breast to breast with George Washington's lauded Truth about the hatchet!