`` They 're no relation to me , and that makes a difference . Besides , they 're all such ladylike girls . I guess I 'd better not risk it . I 'm pretty sure Aunt Jane would n't think it was proper to tell such a dream . And I do n't want to offend Fel -- any of them . '' So Peter never told that dream , nor did he write it down . Instead , I remember seeing in his dream book , under the date of September fifteenth , an entry to this effect : -- `` Last nite i dremed a drem . it wasent a polit drem so i wo n't rite it down . '' The girls saw this entry but , to their credit be it told , they never tried to find out what the `` drem '' was . As Peter said , they were `` ladies '' in the best and truest sense of that much abused appellation . Full of fun and frolic and mischief they were , with all the defects of their qualities and all the wayward faults of youth . But no indelicate thought or vulgar word could have been shaped or uttered in their presence . Had any of us boys ever been guilty of such , Cecily 's pale face would have coloured with the blush of outraged purity , Felicity 's golden head would have lifted itself in the haughty indignation of insulted womanhood , and the Story Girl 's splendid eyes would have flashed with such anger and scorn as would have shrivelled the very soul of the wretched culprit . Dan was once guilty of swearing . Uncle Alec whipped him for it -- the only time he ever so punished any of his children . But it was because Cecily cried all night that Dan was filled with saving remorse and repentance . He vowed next day to Cecily that he would never swear again , and he kept his word . All at once the Story Girl and Peter began to forge ahead in the matter of dreaming . Their dreams suddenly became so lurid and dreadful and picturesque that it was hard for the rest of us to believe that they were not painting the lily rather freely in their accounts of them . But the Story Girl was the soul of honour ; and Peter , early in life , had had his feet set in the path of truthfulness by his Aunt Jane and had never been known to stray from it .
When they assured us solemnly XXXXX their dreams all happened exactly as they described them we were compelled to believe them .
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