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Lander was obliged to speak without the advantage of noting the effect of her words upon her in her face. "It's like this: What am I agoin' to do for them relations of Mr. Landa's out in Michigan?" "I don't know. What relations?" "I told you about 'em: the only ones he's got: his half-sista's children. He neva saw 'em, and he neva wanted to; but they're his kin, and it was his money.
I did want to say ten thousand apiece for Mr. Landa's relations; but I hated to befo'e him; I'd told the whole kit of 'em so much about you, and I knew what they would think." She looked at Clementina with recurring grudge, and the girl could not bear it. "Then why don't you tear it up, and make another? I don't want anything, unless you want me to have it; and I'd ratha not have anything."
"I didn't think you could," said the girl gratefully. "But now, if I left her when she was sick and depended on me, it would look wohse, yet as if I did it because she was going to give her money to Mr. Landa's family. She wants to do that, and I told her to; I think that would be right; don't you?" "It would be right for you, Clementina, if you preferred it and I should prefer it.
Landa's," and she presented him to them all. He shifted his valise to the left hand, and shook hands with each, asking, "What name?" and then fell motionless again. "Well," said her father, "I guess this is the end of this paht of the ceremony, and I'm goin' to see your baggage through the custom-house, Clementina; I've read about it, and I want to know how it's done.
For that instant she abandoned the hope which had kept her up so long; a wave of homesickness overwhelmed her. "I should like to go back, too," she said. "I don't see why I'm staying." "Mr. Osson, why can't you let me" she was going to say "go home with you?" But she really said what was also in her heart, "Why can't you let me give you the money to go home? It is all Mrs. Landa's money, anyway."
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