[Peter Pan by James M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookPeter Pan Chapter3 6/22
"I shall sew it on for you, my little man," she said, though he was tall as herself, and she got out her housewife [sewing bag], and sewed the shadow on to Peter's foot. "I daresay it will hurt a little," she warned him. "Oh, I shan't cry," said Peter, who was already of the opinion that he had never cried in his life.
And he clenched his teeth and did not cry, and soon his shadow was behaving properly, though still a little creased. "Perhaps I should have ironed it," Wendy said thoughtfully, but Peter, boylike, was indifferent to appearances, and he was now jumping about in the wildest glee.
Alas, he had already forgotten that he owed his bliss to Wendy.
He thought he had attached the shadow himself.
"How clever I am!" he crowed rapturously, "oh, the cleverness of me!" It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities.
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