Dog Eared Page: Peter Pan

Monday, July 21, 2014

Wendy, Darling, Barrie, children's book, classic novel,
Illustration by F.D. Bedford


The rock was very small now; soon it would be submerged. Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melencholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon.

Peter was not quite like others boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremor ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there hundreds of them and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure."



- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 

3 comments

  1. Oh, one of my favorites. <3

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  2. Oh oh oh I really love this one~ this looks like an etching, which I also love.

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