`` 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 letter , 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 . Here -- I have the piece in my sewing-bag -- I 'll read it all to you . '' Those three graceless girls read the sentimental rhyme and giggled over it . Poor Cyrus ! His young affections were sadly misplaced . But after all , though Cecily never relented towards him , he did not condemn himself to darkness alone till life was flown . Quite early in life he wedded a stout , rosy , buxom lass , the very antithesis of his first love ; he prospered in his undertakings , raised a large and respectable family , and was eventually appointed a Justice of the Peace . Which was all very sensible of Cyrus . CHAPTER XV . THE RAPE OF THE LOCK June was crowded full of interest that year . We gathered in with its sheaf of fragrant days the choicest harvest of childhood . Things happened right along . Cecily declared she hated to go to sleep for fear she might miss something . There were so many dear delights along the golden road to give us pleasure -- the earth dappled with new blossom , the dance of shadows in the fields , the rustling , rain-wet ways of the woods , the faint fragrance in meadow lanes , liltings of birds and croon of bees in the old orchard , windy pipings on the hills , sunset behind the pines , limpid dews filling primrose cups , crescent moons through darklings boughs , soft nights alight with blinking stars . We enjoyed all these boons , unthinkingly and light-heartedly , as children do . And besides these , there was the absorbing little drama of human life which was being enacted all around us , and in which each of us played a satisfying part -- the gay preparations for Aunt Olivia 's mid-June wedding , the excitement of practising for the concert with which our school-teacher , Mr. Perkins , had elected to close the school year , and Cecily 's troubles with Cyrus Brisk , which furnished unholy mirth for the rest of us , though Cecily could not see the funny side of it at all .
Matters XXXXX from bad to worse in the case of the irrepressible Cyrus .
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