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“Can anything harmless, mother after the night-lights are lit?”
“Nothing, precious,” she said; “ they are the eyes a mother leaves behind to guard her children.”

[Mr Darling] was ashamed of himself, and yet he did it. It was all owing to his two affectionate nature, which cried for admiration. When he had tied her up in the backyard, the wretched father went in and sat in the passage, with his knuckles to his eyes.

It is an astounding thing to have to tell, but this man, though he knew about stocks and shares, had no real mastery of his tie. Sometimes the thing yielded to him without a contest, but there were occasions when it would’ve been better for the house if he had swallowed his pride and used a made up tie.

She decided to roll the shadow up and put it away carefully in a drawer, until a fitting opportunity came to tell her husband.

Nana had no doubt of what the best thing to do with this shadow. She hung it out at the window, “He is sure to come back for it; let us put it where he can get it easily without disturbing the children.” but unfortunately, Mrs. Darling could not leave it hanging out at the window; it looks so like the washing and lowered the whole tone of the house.

You may be sure Mrs. Darling examined the shadow carefully, but it was quite the ordinary kind.

If you or I or Wendy had been there, we should have seen that [Peter] was very like Mrs. Darling‘s kiss. He was a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees; but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth. When he saw she was grown-up, he gnashed the little pearls at her.

[Mrs Darling] dreamt that the Neverland had come to near and that a strange boy had broken through from it. He did not alarm her, but she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children, perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.

[Wendy] explain in quite a matter of fact way that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her. Unfortunately, she never woke, so she didn’t know how she knew, she just knew.

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.