Embraces and kisses were not enough: he bore them to the ground and thumped them soundly on the back in the excess of his emotion.
"You rascal, you good-for-nothing, you shameless rogue, to worry me like that!" he exclaimed, accosting now one, now the other of his two lost brothers, after which he embraced them both once more.
"And am I of no account ?" asked Manasseh.

"Have I no share in all this ?" "You are your brothers' father," Aaron made answer, "before whom they prostrate themselves, even as the sheaves of Joseph's brethren bowed before his sheaf.

We are all your humble slaves." So saying, he threw himself at Manasseh's feet and embraced his knees.

"Torda Gap is, indeed, a place of wonders, but the greatest wonder of all you have wrought in rescuing your brothers." This unrestrained outburst of joy opened Blanka's eyes and made her see that there was far more behind the meeting of these brothers than she had at first suspected.

She knew now that the vague dread which had oppressed her, and from which she had sought relief in sacred song, had not been unfounded.