86 THE COUSINS.

“Yos, but then he said I might go if I would.
help him, but that girls couldn’t help, because it
would spoil their clothes.”

“But afterward, you know, he said I-might go,
when I told him I didn’t mind about spoiling the
clothes.”

“ But I am‘afraid I must say something against
that ; I doubt whether all the hay you and Charles.
will make will pay for spoiling.your clothes.
However,” added Mrs. Lovett, as she saw. the
blank faces of: the disappointed pair, “‘ we, will
think about that; it will be time enough. to detcr-
mine aoout it to morrow. Let me hear now what
you have seen this afternoon.”

An animated description of Mrs. Nye’s poultry-
yard and garden, and of Farmer Nye’s saw-mill,
followed ;. and do you not. think that Lucy, when
she heard their pleasant account, and saw their
bright faces, and thought of her own sleepy, -
weary afternoon, regretted the foolish pride and
self-conceit which had made her refuse to go out
with Mrs. Nye?

While Mary was yet in the midst of her praises
of good, kind Mrs. Nye and her raspberries,