162 THE COUSINS.

at last conquered her sinful and unhappy feelings,
had resigned herself gently and patientiy to the
will of her merciful Father, and had learned to
love all her fellow-creatures as the work of His
hands, and to pity those who were wicked and
cruel, as suffering from a far worse evil than
that which afflicted her—from a deformed soul.
As Lucy heard these things, she felt new hope
and courage stealing into her heart, and she made
new efforts to overcome her own unhappy feel-
ings. She became every day more and more
attached to Miss Berinct, and so often had occa-
sion to repeat to herself, ‘‘Miss Bennet has a
beautiful soul,” that at length she began to think,
“Miss Bennet has a beautiful face.”