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Peter Pan

Chapter3
19/22

Do you think she cared whether she was whipped so long as her charges were safe?
Unfortunately Liza returned to her puddings, and Nana, seeing that no help would come from her, strained and strained at the chain until at last she broke it.

In another moment she had burst into the dining-room of 27 and flung up her paws to heaven, her most expressive way of making a communication.

Mr.and Mrs.Darling knew at once that something terrible was happening in their nursery, and without a good-bye to their hostess they rushed into the street.
But it was now ten minutes since three scoundrels had been breathing behind the curtains, and Peter Pan can do a great deal in ten minutes.
We now return to the nursery.
"It's all right," John announced, emerging from his hiding-place.

"I say, Peter, can you really fly ?" Instead of troubling to answer him Peter flew around the room, taking the mantelpiece on the way.
"How topping!" said John and Michael.
"How sweet!" cried Wendy.
"Yes, I'm sweet, oh, I am sweet!" said Peter, forgetting his manners again.
It looked delightfully easy, and they tried it first from the floor and then from the beds, but they always went down instead of up.
"I say, how do you do it ?" asked John, rubbing his knee.

He was quite a practical boy.
"You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air." He showed them again.
"You're so nippy at it," John said, "couldn't you do it very slowly once ?" Peter did it both slowly and quickly.


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