She was really rather shocked to find it definitely established that her own second cousin, Cyril Alardyce, had lived for the last four years with a woman who was not his wife, who had borne him two children, and was now about to bear him another.
The case of Cyril Alardyce must be discussed, her mother's illusions and the rights of the family attended to.
"I've had a letter from Aunt Celia about Cyril, father.
"And to think it is Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov's son who amuses himself in this sensible manner!
"The fact of the matter is," said she significantly, and also in a half whisper, "everyone knows Count Cyril's reputation....
Besides, Cyril Vladimirovich is my mother's second cousin.
I thought that he was perfectly hateful--and I was sure that Cyril would not wish me to know such a person."
Holmes, Cyril Morton, an electrical engineer, and we hope to be married at the end of the summer.
"Reginald
Cyril Brott, born 18 - , son of John Reginald Brott, Esq., of Manchester.
But you must think of that lonely death in the tawdry dressing-room simply as a strange lurid fragment from some Jacobean tragedy, as a wonderful scene from Webster, or Ford, or
Cyril Tourneur.
I had often wondered what it would feel like to be called by some name like Alan Beverley or
Cyril Trevelyan.
To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom,
Cyril son of Isidor--Kirylo Sidorovitch-- Razumov.