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the day. Oh, wow, I never knew that frogs looked like this inside, he'd say, and then at home he studied thebinding of celIs into organisms through the philotic collation of DNA. Peter was a master ot flattery, and all histeachers bought it.Still, it was good. Peter never fought anymore. Never bullied. Got along well with everybody. It was a newPeter.Everyone believed it. Father and Mother said it so often it made Valentine want to scream at them. It isn't thenew Peter! It's the old Peter, only smarter!How smart? Smarter than you, Father. Smarter than you, Mother. Smarter than anybody you have ever met.But not smarter than me."I've been deciding," said Peter, "whether to kill you or what."Valentine leaned against the trunk of the pine tree, her little fire a few smoldering ashes. "I love you, too,Peter.""It would be so easy. You always make these stupid little fires. It's just a matter of knocking you out andburning you up. You're such a firebug.""I've been thinking of castrating you in your sleep.""No you haven't. You only think of things like that when I'm with you. I bring out the best in you. No,Valentine, I've decided not to kill you. I've decided that you're going to help me.""I am?" A few years ago, Valentine would have been terrified at Peter's threats. Now, though, she was not soafraid. Not that she doubted that he was capable of killing her. She couldn't think of anything so terrible that shedidn't believe Peter might do it. She also knew, though, that Peter was not insane, not in the sense that he wasn't第 132 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网