`` So , my beauty , '' said Hook , as if he spoke in syrup , `` you are to see your children walk the plank . '' Fine gentlemen though he was , the intensity of his communings had soiled his ruff , and suddenly he knew that she was gazing at it . With a hasty gesture he tried to hide it , but he was too late . `` Are they to die ? '' asked Wendy , with a look of such frightful contempt that he nearly fainted . `` They are , '' he snarled . `` Silence all , '' he called gloatingly , `` for a mother 's last words to her children . '' At this moment Wendy was grand . `` These are my last words , dear boys , '' she said firmly . `` I feel that I have a message to you from your real mothers , and it is this : ` We hope our sons will die like English gentlemen . ' '' Even the pirates were awed , and Tootles cried out hysterically , `` I am going to do what my mother hopes . What are you to do , Nibs ? '' `` What my mother hopes . What are you to do , Twin ? '' `` What my mother hopes . John , what are -- '' But Hook had found his voice again . `` Tie her up ! '' he shouted . It was Smee who tied her to the mast . `` See here , honey , '' he whispered , `` I 'll save you if you promise to be my mother . ''
But not even for XXXXX would she make such a promise .
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