64 THE COUSINS.

ings, not being resisted by Cain, made him e
murderer.”

Had Mr. Lovett spoken harshly to Lucy, she
would probably have continued to feel angry, to
think hardly of her cousin, and to believe that she
herself had been treated very badly, and was little,
if at ali, to blame; but he was so affectionate, and
spoke so tenderly to her, that all her anger passed
away ; and then she could see that Mary had been
quite innocent, and that, in truth, her own feelings
had been like those of Cain. When her father
solemnly reminded her to what those feelings had
led Cain, she shuddered, and said, softly, ‘Oh,
papa! I am very sorry.”

“« Then, my daughter,” said Mr. Lovett, kiss-
ing her tenderly, ‘let us tell our heavenly Father
that you are sorry, and ask him to forgive you.
and to take this evil temper of envy and hatred
away from you.”

The father and daughter knelt down together
and prayed, and when they rose up, they went
down stairs, quict and thoughtful, but happy.
When they entered the parlour, Mary was seated
on a low bench, with a book in her lap. Lucy