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"Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbitt, Chapters 18–22

Mon Apr 01 14:53:17 EDT 2013
After meeting the Tucks, a family that is able to live forever after drinking from a magical spring, Winnie Foster questions whether immortality is a blessing or a curse.

Here are links to our lists for the novel: Prologue–Chapter 5, Chapters 6–9, Chapters 10–13, Chapters 14–17, Chapters 18–22, Chapters 23–Epilogue
grateful
And though Winnie blushed as he said it, she was grateful that he didn’t explain.
poised
...her fork poised above her plate.
spoil
“Don’t spoil a good meal with a lot of talk.
fleeting
... wished, for a fleeting moment, that she could stay with them forever...
brief
“I’ll be as brief as possible.”
mantel
He took off his hat and laid it on the mantel...
devote
I decided to devote my life to finding out if it could be true, and if so, how and why.
philosophy
I went to school, I went to a university, I studied philosophy, metaphysics, even a little medicine.
legend
Oh, there were ancient legends, but nothing more.
pitch
A faint flush crept up his neck, and the pitch of his voice lifted, became a fraction higher.
magnificent
“Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.
deserve
“Only to certain people, people who deserve it.
expensive
And it will be very, very expensive.
fortune
But who wouldn’t give a fortune to live forever?”
ignorant
Ignorant people like you should never have the opportunity.
advertise
You can show me where the spring is and help me to advertise.
fatal
You know—things that would be fatal to anybody else, but won’t affect you in the least.
petulance
The man in the yellow suit raised his eyebrows and a nervous petulance came into his voice.
appeal
“Of course, if the idea doesn’t appeal to you,” he said, blinking rapidly, “you needn’t be in on it.
ghastly
The man in the yellow suit smiled a ghastly smile.
extraordinary
Your selfishness is really quite extraordinary, and worse than that, you’re stupid.
demonstration
Once Winifred drinks some of the water, she’ll do just as well for my demonstrations.
tremble
She trembled, and kept her eyes squeezed shut.
envious
It was as if he were entranced and—yes, envious—like a starving man looking through a window at a banquet.
necessity
For the only thing she could think of was the clear and terrible necessity: Mae Tuck must never go to the gallows.
free will
There was a painful pause when the constable told them she had gone away of her own free will, but it only lasted for a moment.
gentle
The Tucks were good and gentle people.
mingle
They received this news with mingled hope and horror...
precious
...with strong threads too ancient and precious to be broken.
claim
We can’t press no kidnapping charges, since your little girl claims there wasn’t no kidnapping.
gingerly
...they were careful with her, a little gingerly, as if she were an egg.
anxious
“Winifred!” an anxious voice called from the cottage.

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