`` 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 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 XXXXX him , but I FEEL him staring at me , and it makes me so nervous . ''
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