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161
Everybody
has
heard
of
the
Little
House
in
the
Kensington
Gardens
,
which
is
the
only
house
in
the
whole
world
that
the
fairies
have
built
for
humans
.
But
no
one
has
really
seen
it
,
except
just
three
or
four
,
and
they
have
not
only
seen
it
but
slept
in
it
,
and
unless
you
sleep
in
it
you
never
see
it
.
This
is
because
it
is
not
there
when
you
lie
down
,
but
it
is
there
when
you
wake
up
and
step
outside
.
162
In
a
kind
of
way
every
one
may
see
it
,
but
what
you
see
is
not
really
it
,
but
only
the
light
in
the
windows
.
You
see
the
light
after
Lock-out
Time
.
David
,
for
instance
,
saw
it
quite
distinctly
far
away
among
the
trees
as
we
were
going
home
from
the
pantomime
,
and
Oliver
Bailey
saw
it
the
night
he
stayed
so
late
at
the
Temple
,
which
is
the
name
of
his
father
's
office
.
Angela
Clare
,
who
loves
to
have
a
tooth
extracted
because
then
she
is
treated
to
tea
in
a
shop
,
saw
more
than
one
light
,
she
saw
hundreds
of
them
all
together
;
and
this
must
have
been
the
fairies
building
the
house
,
for
they
build
it
every
night
,
and
always
in
a
different
part
of
the
Gardens
.
She
thought
one
of
the
lights
was
bigger
than
the
others
,
though
she
was
not
quite
sure
,
for
they
jumped
about
so
,
and
it
might
have
been
another
one
that
was
bigger
.
But
if
it
was
the
same
one
,
it
was
Peter
Pan
's
light
.
Heaps
of
children
have
seen
the
light
,
so
that
is
nothing
.
But
Maimie
Mannering
was
the
famous
one
for
whom
the
house
was
first
built
.
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Maimie
was
always
rather
a
strange
girl
,
and
it
was
at
night
that
she
was
strange
.
She
was
four
years
of
age
,
and
in
the
daytime
she
was
the
ordinary
kind
.
She
was
pleased
when
her
brother
Tony
,
who
was
a
magnificent
fellow
of
six
,
took
notice
of
her
,
and
she
looked
up
to
him
in
the
right
way
,
and
tried
in
vain
to
imitate
him
,
and
was
flattered
rather
than
annoyed
when
he
shoved
her
about
.
Also
,
when
she
was
batting
,
she
would
pause
though
the
ball
was
in
the
air
to
point
out
to
you
that
she
was
wearing
new
shoes
.
She
was
quite
the
ordinary
kind
in
the
daytime
.
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164
But
as
the
shades
of
night
fell
,
Tony
,
the
swaggerer
,
lost
his
contempt
for
Maimie
and
eyed
her
fearfully
;
and
no
wonder
,
for
with
dark
there
came
into
her
face
a
look
that
I
can
describe
only
as
a
leary
look
.
It
was
also
a
serene
look
that
contrasted
grandly
with
Tony
's
uneasy
glances
.
Then
he
would
make
her
presents
of
his
favourite
toys
(
which
he
always
took
away
from
her
next
morning
)
,
and
she
accepted
them
with
a
disturbing
smile
.
The
reason
he
was
now
become
so
wheedling
and
she
so
mysterious
was
(
in
brief
)
that
they
knew
they
were
about
to
be
sent
to
bed
.
It
was
then
that
Maimie
was
terrible
.
Tony
entreated
her
not
to
do
it
to-night
,
and
the
mother
and
their
coloured
nurse
threatened
her
,
but
Maimie
merely
smiled
her
agitating
smile
.
And
by
and
by
when
they
were
alone
with
their
night-light
she
would
start
up
in
bed
crying
'
Hsh
!
what
was
that
?
'
Tony
beseeches
her
,
'
It
was
nothing
--
do
n't
,
Maimie
,
do
n't
'
and
pulls
the
sheet
over
his
head
.
'
It
is
coming
nearer
!
'
she
cries
.
'
Oh
,
look
at
it
,
Tony
!
It
is
feeling
your
bed
with
its
horns
--
it
is
boring
for
you
,
O
Tony
,
oh
!
'
and
she
desists
not
until
he
rushes
downstairs
in
his
combinations
,
screeching
.
When
they
came
up
to
whip
Maimie
they
usually
found
her
sleeping
tranquilly
--
not
shamming
,
you
know
,
but
really
sleeping
,
and
looking
like
the
sweetest
little
angel
,
which
seems
to
me
to
make
it
almost
worse
.
165
But
of
course
it
was
daytime
when
they
were
in
the
Gardens
,
and
then
Tony
did
most
of
the
talking
.
You
could
gather
from
his
talk
that
he
was
a
very
brave
boy
,
and
no
one
was
so
proud
of
it
as
Maimie
.
She
would
have
loved
to
have
a
ticket
on
her
saying
that
she
was
his
sister
.
And
at
no
time
did
she
admire
him
more
than
when
he
told
her
,
as
he
often
did
with
splendid
firmness
,
that
one
day
he
meant
to
remain
behind
in
the
Gardens
after
the
gates
were
closed
.
166
'
O
Tony
,
'
she
would
say
with
awful
respect
,
'
but
the
fairies
will
be
so
angry
!
'
167
'
I
dare
say
,
'
replied
Tony
carelessly
.
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168
'
Perhaps
,
'
she
said
,
thrilling
,
'
Peter
Pan
will
give
you
a
sail
in
his
boat
!
'
169
'
I
shall
make
him
,
'
replied
Tony
;
no
wonder
she
was
proud
of
him
.
170
But
they
should
not
have
talked
so
loudly
,
for
one
day
they
were
overheard
by
a
fairy
who
had
been
gathering
skeleton
leaves
,
from
which
the
little
people
weave
their
summer
curtains
,
and
after
that
Tony
was
a
marked
boy
.
They
loosened
the
rails
before
he
sat
on
them
,
so
that
down
he
came
on
the
back
of
his
head
;
they
tripped
him
up
by
catching
his
bootlace
,
and
bribed
the
ducks
to
sink
his
boat
.
Nearly
all
the
nasty
accidents
you
meet
with
in
the
Gardens
occur
because
the
fairies
have
taken
an
ill-will
to
you
,
and
so
it
behoves
you
to
be
careful
what
you
say
about
them
.