THE COUSINS.

CHAPTER I.
MARY’S FIRST HOME.

Many Mowsray and Lucy Lovett were cousins,
They had often heard of each other, and Cousin
Lucy and Cousin Mary had been-familiar words
with them as soon as they could speak; yet they
never met till they were more than nine ycars
old. Mr. Mowbray, the father of Mary, was a
native of the State of Georgia; and though he
was educated at a Northern college, and married
a Northern lady—the sister of Lucy’s father, Mr.
Lovett—he returned, after his marriage, to his
own home, and there, in Georgia, was Mary
Mowbray born, and there did she spend the first
nine years of her life: and that first home Mary