I do n't know , ' he replied uneasily , ` but I am quite young . ' He really knew nothing about it ; he had merely suspicions , but he said at a venture , ` Wendy , I ran away the day I was born . ' Wendy was quite surprised , but interested ; and she indicated in the charming drawing-room manner , by a touch on her night-gown , that he could sit nearer her . ` It was because I heard father and mother , ' he explained in a low voice , ` talking about what I was to be when I became a man . ' He was extraordinarily agitated now . ' I do n't want ever to be a man , ' he said with passion . ' I want always to be a little boy and to have fun . So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies . ' She gave him a look of the most intense admiration , and he thought it was because he had run away , but it was really because he knew fairies . Wendy had lived such a home life that to know fairies struck her as quite delightful . She poured out questions about them , to his surprise , for they were rather a nuisance to him , getting in his way and so on , and indeed he sometimes had to give them a hiding . Still , he liked them on the whole , and he told her about the beginning of fairies . ` You see , Wendy , when the first baby laughed for the first time , its laugh broke into a thousand pieces , and they all went skipping about , and that was the beginning of fairies . ' Tedious talk this , but being a stay-at-home she liked it . ` And so , ' he went on good-naturedly , ` there ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl . ' ` Ought to be ? Is n't there ? ' ` No . You see children know such a lot now , they soon do n't believe in fairies , and every time a child says , ' I do n't believe in fairies , ' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead . Really , he thought they had now talked enough about fairies , and it struck him that Tinker Bell was keeping very quiet . '
I ca n't think where she has gone to , ' he XXXXX , rising , and he called Tink by name .
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