... him hugged him and kissed him, he sent his servants to get a robe, ring and a fatted calf to celebrate. The kiss was a kiss of reconciliation, much like when David kissed Absalom. "So he came to the king [David] and prostrated himself with his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed ... Absalom."" Him kissing the wayward son is a sign of forgiveness. So the son was brought back into fellowship with his father who thought his son was dead. He was restored to ... ...

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... their knees, their lived near this place a meager, miserly fellow, of the name Tom Walker."" "The first news of his wife had to tell him was the sudden death of Absalom Crowinshield, the rich buccaneer."" The key word is death. From Edgar Allen Poe's "Masque of the Red Death-: "The Red Death' had long devastated the country."" Poe actually acquired historical ... ...

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