-Sir Peter was used as a sacrifice to Stray Dog at the end of this chapter. Who would want this? Diana because it is her role as leader to do what is best for her Aristocrats, or Wendy in a spiteful act?-

I think the sacrifice of Sir Peter has some important symbolism. Wendy wanted Sir Peter to make Jennifer jealous, and used Gregory as her Plan B, when Sir Peter didn’t work. I think that the cutscene shows the violent transition between Plans A and B- Wendy “sacrificing Sir Peter to Stray Dog” in a metaphoric sense. She’s moving on to a worse scenario.

I guess this was more of a symbolism point then a “mystery uncovering” point. Just trying to think like an author ;P

Drawings by Amanda, apparently of herself, follow this entry. In these drawings more and more stars surround Amanda and she is smiling, then she sprouts wings and flies up, at first happy, but then she apparently crashes. The subsequent drawings consist of scribbles that are hard to interpret: the last scribble might be Amanda dead and buried, but that is a speculative interpretation by me.

Those drawings are an animation. If you hold down the right arrow on the d-pad once you’ve gotten to the first drawing, it shows an animation of Amanda turning into an angel–then–CRASH*BURN*SPLAT! The difficult to interpret scribbles would be the splatting phase of the animation.

the traits seem more Wendy than Jennifer, especially letting the rabbit out. As I recall, Wendy was fed up with the rabbit because it wasn’t making Jennifer jealous, correct?

Hoffman’s entry about the rabbit is dated 12 April 1930.
Jennifer doesn’t write to Wendy about finding Brown until 22 July.
So there can be no connection between the rabbit incident that Hoffman wrote about and any concern about Brown by Wendy. The dates don’t fit.
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Syringe_Love asks:

But is it Wendy that Hoffman is referring to in his journals?

That is Lost Orphan’s theory.
I think that I still favor the idea that it is Jennifer. But I don’t rule out Lost Orphan’s very interesting theory.

“Ennui” is boredom or depression…

To read some blog-posts presenting evidence that Martha was attacked and killed in the orphanage:
The Mystery of Martha’s Letter
Martha: Bound, Bagged, and Bloody
A Human Skeleton: Is it Martha?
The Mysteries of Clara’s Cabin (Part 2): Martha’s Death
Thomas’s Skull Drawings

The idea that the imps are fantasy embellishments of the orphans wearing bags on their heads is important, because we see the imps attack and kill Martha in the “Unlucky Clover Field” chapter:
“Olivia Imp”
“The Imps Mystery, and Orphans-wearing-bags (Part 1)”
“The Imps Mystery, and Orphans-wearing-bags (Part 2)”
“The Imps Mystery, and Orphans-wearing-bags (Part 3)”
“The Imps Mystery, and Orphans-wearing-bags (Part 4)”
This Is How We Can Understand What The Imps Are Saying

Wait… I thought Hoffman and Martha left, they weren’t killed by Gregory.

Thanks!
But there appear to be quite a few minor errors in your recounting of the Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies.

For the correct text (and the pictures too) use this link:
http://web.purplefrog.com/~mjm/gashlycrumb/tinies.html
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