40 THE COUSINS.

the night. As Mary whispered, in low, soft
tones, her simple prayer on this first evening in
her new home, she felt that the words, “I pray
God to bless my uncle, and aunt, and cousins,”
which she had learned from her mother, and had
repeated every evening from her infancy, had new
meaning in them. It was for the first time a
real prayer, for there was love in it.