That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.
J. M. BarrieAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: scottish
- Born: May 9, 1860
- Died: June 19, 1937
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