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And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us.
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I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been.
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For poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it as riches, that we saw our son.
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And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither safe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.
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For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and doth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall return to us with joy.
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At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.