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This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth... .'

Если бы это было так, это бы еще ничего. Если бы, конечно, оно так и было. Но так как это не так, так оно и не этак. Такова логика вещей.

Если бы никто не лез в чужие дела,-хрипло проворчала Герцогиня - мир бы вертелся быстрее.

"Shall we still be respectful subjects of the King?" John inquired. Through Hook's teeth came the answer: "You would have to swear, `Down with the King.'" Perhaps John had not behaved very well so far, but he shone out now. "Then I refuse," he cried, banging the barrel in front of Hook. "And I refuse," cried Michael. "Rule Britannia!" squeaked Curly.

It must have been not less than ten o'clock by the crocodile, when he suddenly sat up in his bed, wakened by he knew not what.

"Tootles," she cried, "I appeal to you." "I am just Tootles," he said, "and nobody minds me. But the first who does not behave to Wendy like an English gentleman I will blood him severely."

"There was once a gentleman--" "I had rather he had been a lady," Curly said. "I wish he had been a white rat," said Nibs.

Peter had a sudden idea. "Perhaps Tink wants to be my mother?" "You silly ass!" cried Tinker Bell in a passion. She had said it so often that Wendy needed no translation. "I almost agree with her," Wendy snapped. Fancy Wendy snapping!

"Peter," she asked, trying to speak firmly, "what are your exact feelings to me?"

"Oh dear, oh dear," cried Wendy, "I'm sure I sometimes think that spinsters are to be envied."

Secretly Wendy sympathised with them a little, but she was far too loyal a housewife to listen to any complaints against father. "Father knows best," she always said, whatever her private opinion must be. Her private opinion was that the redskins should not call her a squaw.

Every boy had adventures to tell; but perhaps the biggest adventure of all was that they were several hours late for bed.

"George," Mrs. Darling entreated him, "not so loud; the servants will hear you." Somehow they had got into the way of calling Liza the servants.

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him

Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day.

– Кому вы страшны? – сказала Алиса. (Она уже выросла до своего обычного роста.) – Вы ведь всего-навсего колода карт!