ather numbereth the days of my being out, and if I
tarry more his soul shall be heavy, and certainly thou seest how Raguel
hath adjured me, whose desire I may not despise. Then Raphael, taking
four of the servants of Raguel and two camels, went to Rages the city of
Medes, and there finding Gabael, gave to him his obligation and received
all the money, and told to him of Tobias, son of Tobit, all that was
done, and made him come with him to the wedding. When then he entered
the house of Raguel, he found Tobias sitting at meat, and came to him
and kissed him, and Gabael wept and blessed God saying: God of Israel
bless thee, for thou art son of the best man and just, dreading God and
doing alms, and the blessing be said upon thy wife and your parents, and
that you may see the sons of your sons unto the third and fourth
generation, and your seed be blessed of the God of Israel, which
reigneth in secula seculorum [forever]. And when all had said Amen, they
went to the feast. And with the dread of God they exercised the feast of
their weddings. Whiles that Tobias tarried because of his marriage, his
father Tobit began to be heavy saying: Trowest thou wherefore my son
tarrieth and why he is holden there? Trowest thou that Gabael be dead,
and no man is there that shall give him his money?

He began to be sorry and heavy greatly, both he and Anna his wife with
him, and began both to weep because at the day set he came not home. His
mother therefore wept with unmeasurable tears, and said: Alas, my son,
wherefore sent we thee to go this pilgrimage? The light of our eyes, the
staff of our age, the solace of our life, the hope of our posterity, all
these only having in thee, we ought not to have let thee go from us. To
whom Tobit said: Be still and trouble thee not, our son is safe enough,
the man is true and faithful enough with whom we sent him. She might in
no wise be comforted, but every day she went and looked and espied the
way that he should come if she might see him come from far. Then Raguel
said to Tobias his son-in-law: Abide here with me, and I shall send
messengers of thy health and welfare to Tobit thy father. To whom Tobias
said: I know well that my father and my mother accompt the days, and the
spirit is in great pain within them. Raguel prayed him with many words,
but Tobias would in no wise grant him. Then he delivered to him Sara his
daughter, and half part of all his substance in servants, men and women,
in beasts