But he had not seen the child for six years.
His brother Aaron, too, he hardly recognised, so gray had his hair turned under the anxieties of the past few years.

The speech of welcome which the elder brother was to have delivered proved a total failure, owing to the emotion aroused in the orator's breast at sight of the returned wanderer.

But the most affecting part of it all to Manasseh was the appearance of his sister Anna.

The poor girl, he could not fail to see, was sinking into an early grave..