`` He sent me a lock of his hair and wanted one of mine in exchange , '' continued Cecily indignantly . `` I tell you I sent his back to him pretty quick . '' `` Did you never answer any of his letters ? '' asked Sara Ray . `` No , indeed ! I guess not ! '' `` Do you know , '' said Felicity , `` I believe if you wrote him just once and told him your exact opinion of him in good plain English it would cure him of his nonsense . '' `` I could n't do that . I have n't enough spunk , '' confessed Cecily with a blush . `` But I 'll tell you what I did do once . He wrote me a long letter last week . It was just awfully SOFT , and every other word was spelled wrong . He even spelled baking soda , ` bacon soda ! ' '' `` What on earth had he to say about baking soda in a love-letter ? '' asked Felicity . `` Oh , he said his mother sent him to the store for some and he forgot it because he was thinking about me . Well , I just took his letter and wrote in all the words , spelled right , above the wrong ones , in red ink , just as Mr. Perkins makes us do with our dictation exercises , and sent it back to him . I thought maybe he 'd feel insulted and stop writing to me . '' `` And did he ? '' `` No , he did n't .
It is my XXXXX you ca n't insult Cyrus Brisk .
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