Status Updates From Divina Commedia: Inferno

I was known to one of them who caught me by the hem & cried out, ‘What a wonder!’ While he held his arm outstretched to me, I fixed my eyes on his scorched face 'til beneath the charred disfigurement I could discern features that I knew, lowering my hand toward his face, asked: ‘Are You here, Ser Brunetto?’ He:‘O my son, let it not displease you if Brunetto Latini for a while turns back w/you & lets the troop go on.’