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 . -LSB- Illustration : Peter Pan is the fairies ' orchestra -RSB- 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 -LRB- which he always took away from her next morning -RRB- , and she accepted them with a disturbing smile . The reason he was now become so wheedling and she so mysterious was -LRB- in brief -RRB- 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 XXXXX it almost worse .
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