`` This stops right here , boys , '' he said . `` You know I do n't allow fighting . '' `` Oh , but Uncle Alec , it was this way , '' began Felix eagerly . `` Peter -- '' `` No , I do n't want to hear about it , '' said Uncle Alec sternly . `` I do n't care what you were fighting about , but you must settle your quarrels in a different fashion . Remember my commands , Felix . Peter , Roger is looking for you to wash his buggy . Be off . '' Peter went off rather sullenly , and Felix , also sullenly , sat down and began to nurse his nose . He turned his back on Cecily . Cecily `` caught it '' after Uncle Alec had gone . Dan called her a tell-tale and a baby , and sneered at her until Cecily began to cry . `` I could n't stand by and watch Felix and Peter pound each other all to pieces , '' she sobbed . `` They 've been such friends , and it was dreadful to see them fighting . '' `` Uncle Roger would have let them fight it out , '' said the Story Girl discontentedly . `` Uncle Roger believes in boys fighting . He says it 's as harmless a way as any of working off their original sin . Peter and Felix would n't have been any worse friends after it . They 'd have been better friends because the praying question would have been settled . And now it ca n't be -- unless Felicity can coax Peter to give up praying against Felix . ''
For once in her life the Story Girl was not as tactful XXXXX her wont .
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