Peter Pan

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James Matthew Barrie. Peter Pan

Chapter 1. PETER BREAKS THROUGH

Chapter 2. THE SHADOW

Chapter 3. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!

Chapter 4. THE FLIGHT

Chapter 5. THE ISLAND COME TRUE

Chapter 6. THE LITTLE HOUSE

Chapter 7. THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND

Chapter 8. THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON

Chapter 9. THE NEVER BIRD

Chapter 10. THE HAPPY HOME

Chapter 11. WENDY’S STORY

Chapter 12. THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF

Chapter 13. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?

Chapter 14. THE PIRATE SHIP

Chapter 15. «HOOK OR ME THIS TIME»

Chapter 16. THE RETURN HOME

Chapter 17. WHEN WENDY GREW UP

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Mrs. Darling screamed, and, as if in answer to a bell, the door opened, and Nana entered, returned from her evening out. She growled and sprang at the boy, who leapt lightly through the window. Again Mrs. Darling screamed, this time in distress for him, for she thought he was killed, and she ran down into the street to look for his little body, but it was not there; and she looked up, and in the black night she could see nothing but what she thought was a shooting star.

She returned to the nursery, and found Nana with something in her mouth, which proved to be the boy’s shadow. As he leapt at the window Nana had closed it quickly, too late to catch him, but his shadow had not had time to get out; slam went the window and snapped it off.

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Alas, he would not listen. He was determined to show who was master in that house, and when commands would not draw Nana from the kennel, he lured her out of it with honeyed words, and seizing her roughly, dragged her from the nursery. He was ashamed of himself, and yet he did it. It was all owing to his too affectionate nature, which craved for admiration. When he had tied her up in the back-yard, the wretched father went and sat in the passage, with his knuckles to his eyes.

In the meantime Mrs. Darling had put the children to bed in unwonted silence and lit their night-lights. They could hear Nana barking, and John whimpered, «It is because he is chaining her up in the yard,» but Wendy was wiser.

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