She told Peter that she had adopted all the other boys , and would like to adopt him also . ` Would you send me to school ? ' he inquired craftily . ` Yes . ' ` And then to an office ? ' ' I suppose so . ' ` Soon I should be a man ? ' ` Very soon . ' ' I do n't want to go to school and learn solemn things , ' he told her passionately . ' I do n't want to be a man . O Wendy 's mother , if I was to wake up and feel there was a beard ! ' ` Peter , ' said Wendy the comforter , ' I should love you in a beard ' ; and Mrs. Darling stretched out her arms to him , but he repulsed her . ` Keep back , lady , no one is going to catch me and make me a man . ' ` But where are you going to live ? ' ` With Tink in the house we built for Wendy . The fairies are to put it high up among the tree tops where they sleep at nights . ' ` How lovely , ' cried Wendy so longingly that Mrs. Darling tightened her grip . ' I thought all the fairies were dead , ' Mrs. Darling said . ` There are always a lot of young ones , ' explained Wendy , who was now quite an authority , ` because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born , and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies . They live in nests on the tops of trees ; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls , and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are . ' '
I shall have such fun , ' said XXXXX , with one eye on Wendy .
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