46 THE COUSINS.

large enclosure, planted with trees and laid out in
plots, which Lucy told her cousin were covered
with grass in summer. They were now white
with snow. This enclosure was called Washington
Park. They then passed into Broadway. Mary
had never seen so many houses in all her life to-
gether as she saw on that morning, nor dreamed
of so many people as were hurrying through
Broadway. She asked her aunt who each person
was that passed them at first, but she soon found,
to her surprise, that of most of them Mrs. Lovett
knew as little as herself.

We have not time to tell you of all the novelties
which Mary found in her present abode. She
goon, as her Aunt Lovett had predicted, began to
do many things she had never done before, in
order to help her kind friends; and, as the exercise
of grateful and affectionate feelings is always
pleasant, Mary became industrious, and acquired
habits of regular employment without any dis-
agreeable constraint.

Mary and Lucy often surprised each other by
their different modes of speaking. That Mary
used many very singular expressions cannot be