The open mouth , the drooping arm , the arched knee : they were such a personification of cockiness as , taken together , will never again , one may hope , be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness . They steeled Hook 's heart . If his rage had broken him into a hundred pieces every one of them would have disregarded the incident , and leapt at the sleeper . Though a light from the one lamp shone dimly on the bed , Hook stood in darkness himself , and at the first stealthy step forward he discovered an obstacle , the door of Slightly 's tree . It did not entirely fill the aperture , and he had been looking over it . Feeling for the catch , he found to his fury that it was low down , beyond his reach . To his disordered brain it seemed then that the irritating quality in Peter 's face and figure visibly increased , and he rattled the door and flung himself against it . Was his enemy to escape him after all ? But what was that ? The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter 's medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach . He fathomed what it was straightaway , and immediately knew that the sleeper was in his power . Lest he should be taken alive , Hook always carried about his person a dreadful drug , blended by himself of all the death-dealing rings that had come into his possession . These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science , which was probably the most virulent poison in existence . Five drops of this he now added to Peter 's cup . His hand shook , but it was in exultation rather than in shame . As he did it he avoided glancing at the sleeper , but not lest pity should unnerve him ; merely to avoid spilling . Then one long gloating look he cast upon his victim , and turning , wormed his way with difficulty up the tree . As he emerged at the top he looked the very spirit of evil breaking from its hole . Donning his hat at its most rakish angle , he wound his cloak around him , holding one end in front as if to conceal his person from the night , of which it was the blackest part , and muttering strangely to himself , stole away through the trees . Peter slept on .
The light guttered -LSB- burned to edges -RSB- and went out , leaving the tenement in darkness ; but still he XXXXX .
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