For hours he could not be separated from these dreams , though he wailed piteously in them . They had to do , I think , with the riddle of his existence . At such times it had been Wendy 's custom to take him out of bed and sit with him on her lap , soothing him in dear ways of her own invention , and when he grew calmer to put him back to bed before he quite woke up , so that he should not know of the indignity to which she had subjected him . But on this occasion he had fallen at once into a dreamless sleep . One arm dropped over the edge of the bed , one leg was arched , and the unfinished part of his laugh was stranded on his mouth , which was open , showing the little pearls . Thus defenceless Hook found him . He stood silent at the foot of the tree looking across the chamber at his enemy . Did no feeling of compassion disturb his sombre breast ? The man was not wholly evil ; he loved flowers -LRB- I have been told -RRB- and sweet music -LRB- he was himself no mean performer on the harpsichord -RRB- ; and , let it be frankly admitted , the idyllic nature of the scene stirred him profoundly . Mastered by his better self he would have returned reluctantly up the tree , but for one thing . What stayed him was Peter 's impertinent appearance as he slept . The open mouth , the drooping arm , the arched knee : they were such a personification of cockiness as , taken together , will never again , one may hope , be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness . They steeled Hook 's heart . If his rage had broken him into a hundred pieces every one of them would have disregarded the incident , and leapt at the sleeper . Though a light from the one lamp shone dimly on the bed , Hook stood in darkness himself , and at the first stealthy step forward he discovered an obstacle , the door of Slightly 's tree . It did not entirely fill the aperture , and he had been looking over it . Feeling for the catch , he found to his fury that it was low down , beyond his reach . To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter 's face and figure visibly increased , and he rattled the door and flung himself against it . Was his enemy to escape him after all ? But what was that ?
The red in his eye had caught sight of XXXXX 's medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach .
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