The few books left to him by his oft-referred-to Aunt Jane had stocked his mind with a miscellaneous information which sometimes made Felix and me doubt if we knew as much as Peter after all . Felicity was so impressed by his knowledge of astronomy that she dropped back from the other girls and walked beside him . She had not done so before because he was barefooted . It was permissible for hired boys to go to public meetings -- when not held in the church -- with bare feet , and no particular disgrace attached to it . But Felicity would not walk with a barefooted companion . It was dark now , so nobody would notice his feet . `` I know a story about the Milky Way , '' said the Story Girl , brightening up . `` I read it in a book of Aunt Louisa 's in town , and I learned it off by heart . Once there were two archangels in heaven , named Zerah and Zulamith -- '' `` Have angels names -- same as people ? '' interrupted Peter . `` Yes , of course . They MUST have . They 'd be all mixed up if they had n't . '' `` And when I 'm an angel -- if I ever get to be one -- will my name still be Peter ? '' `` No . You 'll have a new name up there , '' said Cecily gently . `` It says so in the Bible . '' `` Well , I 'm glad of that . Peter would be such a funny name for an angel . And what is the difference between angels and archangels ? ''
`` Oh , archangels are angels that have been angels so long that they 've had time to grow better and brighter and more beautiful than newer angels , '' said the Story Girl , who probably made that explanation up on the spur XXXXX the moment , just to pacify Peter .
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