He said he meant to write two lines every day till he got it done.
Cupid was playing his world-old tricks with others than poor Peter that spring.

Allusion has been made in these chronicles to one, Cyrus Brisk, and to the fact that our brown-haired, soft-voiced Cecily had found favour in the eyes of the said Cyrus.

Cecily did not regard her conquest with any pride.

On the contrary, it annoyed her terribly to be teased about Cyrus.

She declared she hated both him and his name.