Sentence:  "Good,—that's a whack. What's your name?" / "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's <WSD>Thomas</WSD> Sawyer." / "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (from=Aramaic) of biblical origin, popular since the 13th century.