`` And did he ? '' `` No , he did n't . It is my opinion you ca n't insult Cyrus Brisk . He is too thick-skinned . He wrote another letter , and thanked me for correcting his mistakes , and said it made him feel glad because it showed I was beginning to take an interest in him when I wanted him to spell better . Did you ever ? Miss Marwood says it is wrong to hate anyone , but I do n't care , I hate Cyrus Brisk . '' `` Mrs. Cyrus Brisk WOULD be an awful name , '' giggled Felicity . `` Flossie Brisk says Cyrus is ruining all the trees on his father 's place cutting your name on them , '' said Sara Ray . `` His father told him he would whip him if he did n't stop , but Cyrus keeps right on . He told Flossie it relieved his feelings . Flossie says he cut yours and his together on the birch tree in front of the parlour window , and a row of hearts around them . '' `` Just where every visitor can see them , I suppose , '' lamented Cecily . `` He just worries my life out . And what I mind most of all is , he sits and looks at me in school with such melancholy , reproachful eyes when he ought to be working sums . I wo n't look at him , but I FEEL him staring at me , and it makes me so nervous . '' `` They say his mother was out of her mind at one time , '' said Felicity . I do not think Felicity was quite well pleased that Cyrus should have passed over her rose-red prettiness to set his affections on that demure elf of a Cecily . She did not want the allegiance of Cyrus in the least , but it was something of a slight that he had not wanted her to want it . `` And he sends me pieces of poetry he cuts out of the papers , '' Cecily went on , `` with lots of the lines marked with a lead pencil .
Yesterday he put one in his XXXXX , and this is what he marked : '' ` If you will not relent to me Then must I learn to know Darkness alone till life be flown .
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