You are talking here about Mary Jane Wilks who shows up in
Chapters 25 through 29. I would say that Huck really likes both her and her sisters and
that he thinks that they are very nice, kind people.
Huck
seems to be particularly taken by Mary Jane's beauty but also by the grace and kindness
with which she behaves. He repeatedly mentions how doing things beatifully was just her
way -- just natural for her. He is especially impressed when she scolds Joanna for
making him feel bad. He had been lying to Joanna and she caught him at it, but Mary
Jane told her to stop making him feel bad -- that she needed to make him feel welcome no
matter what.
It is at this point that Huck says something
very telling. Here is the quote with the first statement being Mary Jane's and the
second being Huck's:
"It don't make no difference what he
said -- that ain't the thing. The thing is for you to treat him
kind, and not be saying things to make him remember he ain't in his
own country and amongst his own folks."
I says to myself,
this is a girl that I'm letting that old reptile rob her of her
money!
So Huck is very taken
by what a good person Mary Jane is and he thinks very highly of
her.
For whatever reason, I am not being able to paste in
the link to this quote. If you want to follow it, it
is
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Twa2Huc.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=26&division=div1
Or
you can just go
to
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Twa2Huc.html
And
go to Ch. 26.
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