parapet, and chatted with the German soldiers, || reverie when we spoke of poetry or the fine arts whom his loose wit immediately provoked to laugh- || On these he was eloquent, especially when he could ter. He then wished them a good morning, and obtain exclusive possession of my ear, and dilate proceeding infinitely at his ease, in a few minutes on the praise of Shakspeare. Of late the Gerfound himself in Piedmont. As we were demans have cherished the odd opinion that we, the tained to have our passports examined, the jolly countrymen of Shakspeare, have learned through exile was several miles on his way before we over- them properly to appreciate him. It may very took him, when he bounded up to his place with a well be doubted, however, whether any foreigner, light spring and a laugh, saying he had felt Prince German or not, can be said to understand our great Metternich's fingers at the nape of his neck till he poet, whose very language is often caviare to the was fairly over the Po. "But now, a fig for the old bulk, even here in England. To build up dreamy rascal," said he; "his downfall must be approaching; theories about his meaning, is not always to underand my most earnest wish is, that I may assist in stand him; and this is what German critics have producing it." He was rather young for a conspirator, || generally done. Semler was modest enough to not, certainly, above five-and-twenty, perhaps much admit that he admired, without always compreless. But, like Monsieur Flocon, he seemed to have|| hending, Shakspeare; and if he had not understood lived nearly all his life in secret societies, and some him at all, he might still, according to his own portion of it, perhaps, in prison. I asked him what || theory, have admired him, because he was not one the members of the secret societies chiefly aimed of those who think that what Locke calls clear and at? He replied, "There are two sections, one distinct ideas are necessary to the production of inof which dreams of a kingdom of Upper Italy, tellectual delight. On the contrary, he believed while the other thinks of nothing but the estab- that mistiness and obscurity are not only a source lishment of a republic. I belong to the latter of the sublime, but powerful ingredients of pleasure, class, and have sworn to plot and conspire against since, according to them, it is far more agreeable kings while I have breath. So here's to you, Prince to move in partial or total darkness than in the Metternich!" said he, turning round and spitting at light. Lombardy. He I had exchanged the interior, notwithstanding that it contained Carlotta, for the outside and the fresh air; and now our Milanese exile came luckily to dissipate the German phlegm of Semler, and put to flight the bashfulness of a young Dalmatian, who had joined our party at Pavia. By these two I was infinitely amused. The Dalmatian presented the most complete contrast to the Milanese. was tall, muscular, of a dark olive complexion, with hair and eyes as black as jet. His habits had evi dently been studious; although he could not have|| been more than twenty years of age, he spoke and reasoned like a man of thirty. In politics he was as red as the Milanese; though, at his own home, || which was at Trieste, he expected, he said, to find no sympathy, but, on the contrary, the most determined opposition and dislike. "My father," he observed, "is a Monarchist of the old school, full of the prejudices of bigotry, but otherwise a good man. He is advancing by a double road towards fortune, being engaged in commerce and the cultivation of the soil. We have a pretty little property near the city, where there is a vineyard descending in terraces towards the stream; and there, at the foot of a bitteralmond tree, I have hundreds of times sat reading Machiavelli and Fra Paolo, and meditating the revolutionising of Italy." Semler either took no interest in politics, or held opinious different from ours, for he remained silent during our discussion, and only emerged from his I certainly experience no small degree of enjoyment from travelling in an express train through a long dark tunnel, which suggests to one the idea of rushing wildly through infinite space; but I certainly should not like to be condemned to travel all my life in such Cimmerian gloom. A flash of darkness does very well now and then, but if Shakspeare's ideas were always surrounded by a Stygian atmosphere, in all likelihood his admirers would not be quite so numerous as they are. The country between Pavia and Nove is a dead flat, though I could perceive everywhere spots which made pleasant pictures to the eye-copses, thickets, glades, vistas, lofty trees, and sheets of water, all glowing with the warmth of an autumnal sun. Towards evening we arrived at Nove, where I saw a curious illustration of the way in which a man may sometimes get introduced into good Italian society. Of course there is a very great difference between the people you meet with in such cities, and those who inhabit the several capitals; but I dare say the man who travels with an open heart and frank manners through Italy, will often find openness and frankness in return. At any rate, I must speak of the Italians according to my experience; and if they behaved better to me than to others, it is but fair that I should acknowledge it. We often make our own receptions, aud receive what we give. The Italians especially like to have faith put in them; and, so far as I have seen, they well deserve to be trusted-I mean, of course, as a general rule. In the month of February, nearly twenty years ago, a fearful storm swept over the Shetland Islands. These are situated, as is well known, in a close group in the Northern Atlantic, about one hundred and forty miles from the Scottish mainland, and stretch from north to south about seventy miles. There is only one lighthouse throughout the islandsthat on the cliff of Sumburgh Head, the southern promontory, which frowns over the classical but no longer formidable roost. har This island stretches across the mouth of a snug bour; and, had the hapless mariners been acquainted with their situation, or in circumstances to have taken advantage of it, a few hundred yards of a narrow but safe entrance would have brought them to an anchorage, where they might have rode out the wildest hurricane in security. But it was otherwise appointed. The vessel, no longer under the control of the helm, drifted onwards across the entrance of the harbour, right in the face of a frowning mural precipice which On the occasion alluded to, the gale commenced faced the east. The supercargo and his young wife in the afternoon, from the south-east, increasing as the rushed on deck just when the ship, after dashing with moonless night came on, and was accompanied with resistless force on the precipitous headland, rebounded, thick snow. No scene can be imagined more dreary and, again striking, parted in two! Clinging in an than these isles present in such circumstances. The agonising embrace, and uttering one piercing cry for ocean spray, mingling with the snow flakes, wraps sea, mercy on their souls, the young couple, several other earth, and sky, in one desolating cloud; while the roar passengers, and a part of the crew, sunk with the of the breakers on the cliff, and the gusts of the mighty hinder part of the vessel in the boiling abyss, and wind, combine to appal even those most familiar with were seen no more. The fore part, on which were the these occurrences. On such an evening the Shet-captain and the rest of the crew, was now drifted land peasant, after looking to the safety of his boat || northwards, into what appeared to them the open sea; on the beach, and spreading a few handfuls of fodder and, believing as they did that they had struck on the before the shivering animals cowering near his cottage, extreme point of the land, they had, for a short, fearwould early close the door, and with his family pre-ful space, no other prospect than of being carried helppare themselves for a few hours of tranquil industry before retiring to rest. Fire and light he seldom wants the livers of the fish he has caught supply the latter, while peats he has in plenty for the trouble of preparing and carrying them home. The father will now make or mend his family's shoes, or, assisted by his sons, manufacture straw baskets for household use; while the females card, spin, and knit their fine wool. As midnight approaches, one light after another is extinguished in the lowly dwellings, and the inmates are buried in silence and repose. Doubtless, on a night like that we have attempted to describe, many a wife and mother would press a sleepless pillowher fancy wandering to the absent sailor, perchance exposed to the fury of the elements; for there are few families in this sea-girt district of whom some of the members are not seamen in the navy or distant merchant service. But at length even these anxieties would be hushed in sleep, even as "the sea-boy at the mast-head is lulled to rest by the rocking of the storm." At this hour, then, a stately ship was lying-to in the gale, in imagined safety, but really in dangerous proximity to the rocks of Shetland. She was bound from Hamburg to New Orleans, with a valuable cargo. The captain had come on deck, after temporary repose, to look at the weather; and, confident in the qualities of his ship, and the reckoning they had kept, supposing himself to be at least fifty miles to the northward of Shetland, he was about to go below again, when the watch made the appalling cry," Breakers ahead!" "Call all hands to ware the ship!" was the instant and calm command. But ere a few minutes had elapsed, all was consternation and despair. The vessel was driving before wind and sea among the breakers, and very shortly struck heavily on the north point of a small uninhabited island, and disabled her rudder. lessly beyond all hope of escape. This awful interval of suspense was, however, very short. The remains of the unfortunate barque were shivered into fragments on a sunken rock, and eleven more human beings were hurried into eternity! On the top of the cliff where this awful scene was transacted, yet sheltered by a hill rising behind it, stood a solitary fisherman's cottage. It was wrapped in the drifting snow, and no friendly light glimmered from its little window; yet thither the hand of Providence guided a desolate stranger. A Shetland peasant's door is never barred, nor is the demand on his hospitality grudgingly answered. A dripping, bruised, and half-dead sailor, was, therefore, instantly admitted to the fisherman's cottage; though he afterwards owned it was with trembling he found himself thus in the power of lonely strangers, for there rushed to his shuddering recollection wild tales of cruel wreckers, who murder survivors for the purpose of plundering the vessels stranded on their shores. He wronged the simple and kindly Shetlanders, however, by the thought; for whatever may be their propensities as regards wrecked property, a suffering fellow-creature bas never at their hands received aught but compassion and assistance. So the sleeping embers were roused, fresh turf heaped on the hearth, and dry clothes and warm milk procured for the stranger. As soon as the melancholy morning dawned, a messenger was sent to the laird, who was also the nearest justice-of-peace, before whom the shipwrecked man wished to make the neces sary official declarations. The snow was falling thick, and the gale continuing; but the laird sent his servant with a pony to convey the stranger to his house, where every assistance and comfort his case required were afforded; and, after a sojourn of some weeks, he was enabled to return to his home in safety. To his hospitable entertainer he told, in a manly yet modest nar rative, the history of his wonderful escape. He was can tell the future most truly. Come with me, and the captain and sole survivor of the unfortunate vessel || ask her about this voyage, which to me seems so ill-a pleasing, intelligent man, under thirty-a Nor- || omened; and if she says you are not to return, go I wegian, yet speaking pretty good English. will with you yet, and share your fate." "As to your accompanying me, Carolina, that is out of the question; but if it will please you, I will go with you to this wise woman"- -a sailor's proverbial superstition, unconsciously, perhaps, lending weight to his desire to soothe his youthful and endeared companion. hastily, and in silence, to a miserable cellar, in the most miserable part of the old town of Hamburg. Carclina knocked softly at a door she appeared to know well-for, indeed, she had visited the old woman's dwelling ere now. She had before asked concerning the fate of her absent betrothed; and having been answered that he would soon return from a favourable voyage, and be united to her, and this prediction having been duly fulfilled, Carolina now believed she should again receive a truthful prophecy, and, at all events, know the worst. We fear the era of fortune-telling has not wholly departed, and that too many belonging to this more enlightened age and community indulge in this foolish and sinful superstition. When the ship went finally to pieces, he clung to a mast, by which he for a long time contrived to keep, although he was, along with it, repeatedly dashed on shore, and washed off by the next wave, and also was often compelled to dive, that he might not be crushed or entangled by the floating pieces of wood and tack-So the pair muffled themselves up closely, and proceeded ling. He must have maintained astonishing self-possession and cool courage, of which two circumstances may be examples. Finding his jacket and boots impeded his exertions, he managed, while riding on the mast, to throw them off, and this while death, in all its horrors, surrounded him. The other was, that, observing the height of each wave, as it broke on the rocky shore (the third, as is firmly believed by seamen, being always the highest), he allowed himself to be floated off by the lower seas without unnecessarily expending his strength, till the fortunate one should arrive; which, as he calculated, threw him at length so far onward that he had time to secure his hold ere another equally powerful could reach him. Thus, at length, though much bruised and torn, he crept to a crevice of the bank, where he rested awhile, the thick snow and sea-spray almost smothering him, though still collected and undaunted. When able, he crawled on, hoping to find shelter, which, after some wandering, he obtained in the cottage we have mentioned. To his coolness and courage, under God, he owed his life; and he averred that all the time he was confident he should be saved. He had been at sea from early boyhood; this was his third shipwreck; and he was quite sure he should never be drowned. On being asked his reason for this confident persuasion, after becoming a little acquainted with a female relative of his host, he gave her the following account:- "My husband goes on a sea voyage; will he return He had been married for some months to a beautiful in safety?" said the silvery voice of Carolina, which girl, to whom he was much attached. The ship was sounded like a Sabbath-bell in Pandemonium, if we laden, and cleared out, and only waited a favouring could imagine such a thing there-but it was the simile wind to set sail, which seemed at last to have arrived; of a doting husband. The old woman, without replyand the captain and his wife were seated at breakfast. ing, went to the farther corner of the apartment, where, The young woman, oppressed with the idea of the ap- by a rushlight, she turned over the leaves of a huge proaching parting, stole many a hurried glance at her ancient volume. In a few moments she delivered her husband, but dared not trust her eye to meet his, lest oracular response thus-" The voyage of your husband her assumed composure should fail her. At length he will be a very disastrous one. Yet, be comforted; started up. Well, Carolina, cheer up now; the wind he will return safe and well; and, what is more, he will has really become favourable, and I shall have an im-never die by drowning." They left the wretched cell, mediate summons to go on board." Carolina burst into tears. "Well, Hertz, you will go; and I shall never see you more." 66 Pooh, pooh! Carolina; is this your promised fortitude?" "Nay, hear me, husband dear! I had such a dream last night! and many such I shall have in your absence. I am sure something will happen, and we shall never meet again," she added, now weeping passionately. "Now, this is ever the way with you women," said the husband, striving to be jocular, while his voice faltered; "you would try to unman the bravest heart with your fancies and your dreams. Let not my Carolina be so silly." Well, I will not, Hertz, though this dream does haunt me strangely, if you will only grant me one favour. There is an old woman, not far from this, who || A pleasant-looking, but meanly-clad young woman admitted the captain and his wife to a dismal passage; and this led them to a large, dark apartment, with bare, damp walls, and an earthen floor. A low fire burned on a miserable hearth, round which were placed three flat stones, the only furniture of the comfortless dwelling. Having desired her visitors to seat themselves, the old, withered hag scanned them earnestly by the dim firelight, to which her organs were doubtless accustomed, but which seemed to Hertz and his companion only to render "darkness visible." After a short silence, the ancient crone said, slowly, "And what question dost thou wish to put to me, young frau?” Carolina clinging more closely to her husband's arm, thankful for the equivocal, yet, to her, sufficient assurance of his safety; and in a few hours she parted from him with tolerable composure; and often, during the midnight storm, when startled from sleep by the sounds ever most fearful in the car of the sailor's wife, she has composed herself to rest again, murmuring "He will never die by drowning!" Alas for poor Hertz and his affectionate Carolina! on his next voyage, in the following year, his vessel foundered at sea, and neither gallant courage nor superstitious confidenee could avail to save him—he was heard of no more! But to return to the scene of the shipwreck in Shetland. The news of the wreck spread like wildfire; and, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, most of the inhabitants of the comparatively populous neighbourhood hurried to the spot. Just only for the purpose of intimidation, as they were not charged. An express had been sent off to the customhouse the instant the weather moderated, also to the coast-guard and Lloyd's agent; but these were sixty miles distant. In the meantime, the justice exerted himself to check the disgraceful scenes he witnessed. In vain did he urge that there was one man saved, to whom the property belonged, as representative. "Nae doot, sir-nae doot, honest man. Let him come, an' tak a' he can; nane here shall stop him." In vain they were told that, if they would save what they could for the owners or insurers, they would be liberally rewarded. "Verra true, sir; but then them that hardly lifts a hand would get as much as we that peril life in the cause. Na, na, sir; Gude has sent us a blessing, and we'll just tak' what He gi'es, and be thankfu'." round the point where Hertz had been cast ashore, was a small open bay, with a low beach; and each wave, as it rolled before the still-thundering gale, bore with it|| bales and boxes of valuable property, linen and lace forming a great part of the cargo, together with the debris of the wreck. Wood is to a Shetlander the most valued of all commodities. Now, it is merely a hopeless task to attempt to convince these islanders that what is tossed at the mercy of the devouring waves can of right be the property of any but those! who are able to rescue it from certain destruction. Accordingly, on the occasion referred to, every person present rushed into the dangerous surf, braving cold, and wet, and peril, to secure for themselves the wealth they saw before them. Boxes of jewellery and tea, wearing apparel, and every article so large a vessel would necessarily contain, were strewn in profusion on the shore; and ever and anon, alas! the bodies of the drowned would be mingled with the heaps. Increas- This was just one of those cases where "might makes ing crowds increased only the number of the plunderers. right." The ignorant and lawless numbered thirty to Everything was carried off and appropriated that could one; yet the brave and powerful men appointed to be so removed. It was some little time ere the magis- watch over what had been rescued, of the value of trate, apprised of what was going on, could obtain several hundred pounds, by firmness and forbearance, and swear-in a number of special constables; but their maintained their charge for another bitter night; and, presence was of little avail. They prevailed on a few ere a third set in, the custom-house officers and other men to join them in securing some of the most unwieldy authorities arrived. A vigorous search of the neigh bales, and largest pieces of wreck, which they collected bouring dwellings, and those of all persons who had on the beach, and over which they mounted guard; and been recognised among the depredators, now took this was the amount of the duty they could perform.place. Only in a few instances, however, was it suc Some still more distressing features were added to the cessful. picture. There were casks of spirits among the other!] In the thatch of the cottages, in the snow-wreaths things of these the poor deluded crowd drank freely; ||on the hills, buried in their yards and fields, and even and had there not been more than enough of spoil for anchored in some snug creek in the bosom of the deep all who came that day, strife and violence must have sea, much valuable property was concealed and secured. ensued. Of those who spent the few dismal hours of Months afterwards, these ill-gotten goods were sold daylight in these unhallowed deeds, two paid a sudden for a trifle to travelling pedlers, or native shopkeepers. and fearful penalty. One man perished in the snow, A few of the leading depredators were taken into cus lonely and far from help; another died from cold,tody, but a short imprisonment was all the punishment fatigue, and intemperance, and was found next morn-inflicted. ing by his wife, lying within a few yards of his cottage But the inquiry may naturally arise-In what condoor, laden with the spoil for which he paid so dearly.||dition are the Shetlanders now? Are they not more Yet these warnings, solemn and affecting as they were, enlightened than they were twenty years ago? No did not deter others from engaging in similar scenes doubt the progress of improvement has reached them on the ensuing day. The wind sank during the to a certain extent; yet still they are isolated and nenight into an intense frost; and next morning the sun glected. The laws are very negligently enforced; rose unclouded on the brilliant snow and the still-labour-private grievances are with difficulty, or not at all, reing sea, rolling in, with each huge but rapidly lessen- dressed. Except in the town of Lerwick, there is not ing wave, the packages which floated on the surface a legal practitioner in the islands. Above all, the of the little bay. The inhabitants from the more re-means of education, and especially of religious instruction, mote districts of the island hastened for a share of the are most sparingly and grudgingly bestowed; so that the spoil; and as it was not so abundant as before, much people are, on many subjects connected with their own confusion took place the fearful passions of envy and others' rights, quite as ignorant and inaccessible and cupidity being aggravated by intemperance. The to advice as they ever were. This very season, some poor deluded people even attacked the heap the con- scenes too much like the one we have endeavoured stables had saved, but with little success. The laird to sketch, have taken place. The causes are obvious. and a few friends now went to the scene of action; and Would that a remedy could be applied! These causes a striking one it was. The most resistless of Nature's are mainly two-the absence of any police or constaelements seemed yet triumphing in the desolation itbulary force in any part of the islands, and the miserabe had made of the most majestic work of man, whose unbridled passions appeared as if mocking and defying the very wrath of Heaven "While the sun look'd, smiling bright, On the wild and woful sight." The magistrate's fist act was to order the spiritcasks to be staved; and then the constables were armed with such fowling-pieces as could be procured, though remuneration the people have ever received for saving wrecked goods. Until some more efficient administra tion of justice is introduced on the one hand, and some more just system of allowance for salvage is adopted, we fear the Shetlanders will still be too ready to "tak” the blessing" from the deep-forgetfulof, or disregarding any other claims than those arising from cupidity and self-interest. TARASS BOULBA. FROM THE RUSSIAN. MANNERS, customs, feelings, and character are perhaps more thoroughly to be appreciated in the stories and legends of a land than even in its history. Though much has been written on the subject, yet people in general know little about Russia. Serious books of travels only obtain a partial hearing, while fiction clainis a large and attentive audience. Nicolas Gogol, since the death of Pouchkine and Lermontoff, is the most popular of Russian writers. But forty years of age, he has yet, probably, a wide career before him. His play of Revisor, and his novel Meurtria Douchi, we may introduce at a future time to our readers, but at present we purpose making them acquainted with one of his shorter tales. TARASS BOULBA is a narrative illustrating the manners of the Zaporog Cossacks, and a few words of introduction will be necessary. We quote from Viardot:-"We shall not seek to trace, with Mannert, if the Cossacks be the descendants of the ancient Scythians (Niebuhr has proved that the Scythians of Herodotus were the ancestors of the Mongols), nor if the Cossacks (in Russian, Kasak) are to be found in the Karaya of Constantine Porphyrogenetes, the Kassogues of Nestor, or the horsemen and Russian corsairs, whom the Arabian geographers place around the Black Sea. Like the origin of every nation, that of the Kasaks is obscure. Schloetzer supposes them a collection of adventurers of all nations. They were, it is true, recruited from Russians, Poles, Turks, and Tartars, and even French and Italians; but the primitive Kasaks were a Selavonic race, dwelling on the Ukraine, whence they spread on the borders of the Don, the Ural, and the Volga. It was a little army of eight hundred Kasaks which, under the orders of their ataman Yermak, conquered Siberia in 1550. "We first hear of the Zaporogs, one of the most warlike of their races, in Polish annals of the 16th century. This name was derived from the Russian words za, beyond (trans), and porog, cataract, because they dwell beyond the granite beds which check the course of the Dnieper. The country they inhabit is called Zaporojie. Masters of a great part of the fertile plains and steppes of the Ukraine-in their turn allies and enemies of the Russians, Poles, Tartars, and Turks-the Zaporogs were an eminently warlike race, organised in a military republic, with a coarse resemblance to the orders of chivalry. Such were the words with which old Boulba received his two sons, who had returned from finishing their studies at the seminary of Kiew. His sons had just alighted from their horses. They were two robust young men, who had still that look from under their eyes which appertains to seminarists just loose from school. Their faces, full of strength and health, just began to be clothed with down, untouched as yet by razor. The reception of their father had disconcerted them; they remained motionless, their eyes fixed on the ground. "Wait! wait! let me eye you at my ense. Heavens! what long rohes!" said he, turning them round and round. "Devils of robes! I am sure, never were the like seen in the world. Come! let one of you try and ruu, then I shall see if he won't fall on his nose." "Father! don't mock us," said the elder. "See the fine gentleman!-And why should I not mock you? Because though you are my father, I swear if you continue to laugh, I will thrash you." What! son of a dog, your father?" cried Tarass Boulba, stepping back in astonishment. Yes, even my father! When I am offended, I look to nothing, I care for no one." "In what way will you fight with me?---With Lists ?” "All ways are the same to me." 'Their principal head-quarters, called a setch, was usually in an island of the Dnieper. It was a collection of great wooden and earthen huts, surrounded by a glacis, and could as well 'be called a camp as a village. Each cabin (their number was never over four hundred) might hold forty or fifty Cossacks. During summer, while the labours of the field went on, few remained at the setch; but in winter it was guarded by four thousand men. The rest dispersed themselves in the surrounding villages, or dug in the neighbourhood sunken dwellings, called zimovniki (from zima, winter). The selch was divided into thirty-four "Good!-- for fists, then," said Tarass Boulba, tuckquarters or koureny (from kourit, to smoke, the word kouring up his sleeves. "I shall see what sort of fellow corresponding with our hearth). Each Kasak dwelling in the setch was bound to live in his kourèn; each hourèn, known by a particular name, generally that of its chief, elected an atoman (korrennoi-ataman) whose power only lasted as long as the Kasaks were satisfied with his conduct. The money and goods of the Kasaks of a kourèn were deposited with their ataman, who let out the shops and boats (douby) of his kourèn, and held the All the Kasaks of a kouren dined at one table. common purse. yon are at your fists." And the father and son, instead of embracing, after a long absence, commenced giving one another vigor. ous blows in the sides, in the back, in the breast. "See now, good people, the old man is mad; he has quite lost his senses!" cried the poor mother, pale and "The collected koureny chose a superior chief, the hochécoi-thin, standing on the threshold, where she waited ataman (from kosch, in Tartar, camp; or from kotcheval, Russian, to camp). The rada, or national assembly, which always took place after dinner, occurred twice a-year, on the 24th June, day of the feast of St. John the Baptist, and on the 1st October, day of the presentation of the Virgin, patroness of the church of the selch. "The most distinctive mark of the setch was, that no women were admitted within its precincts." With this introduction, we beg to introduce M. Gogol's tale, which will afford a rare insight into early Russian manners. to embrace her dear children. "The children have come home, after more than a year's absence; and God knows what folly he begins with." "But he fights very well," said Bonlba, stopping. "Yes! 'fore God, he fights well," he continued, shaking his clothes-" so well, that it had been better for me if I had left him alone. He will be a good Kasak. Good day, my son! Let us embrace." And the father and son embraced. |