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The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.
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After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
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Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
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He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
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She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.
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She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.
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Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
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Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.
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After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
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The man is not wholly evil: he has a Thesaurus in his cabin.
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Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. "I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?
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Lady Randolph Churchill
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Born:
May 9, 1860
Died:
June 19, 1937
(aged 77)
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