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The next morning when her uncle came, Amrie declared that she should remain at home. There was a strange mixture of bitterness and benevolence when her uncle said, "Indeed, thou tak'st after thy mother, who would never have any thing to do with us. But I cannot take Dami alone, even if he would go. For a long time he would do nothing but eat bread. Thou couldst have earned it. "
Amrie urged, "that for the present they would remain here in their village, and later, if her uncle remained of the same mind, she, with her brother, could go to him. "