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Tales from Tolstoi work, neighbour, God's work. Come into my hut for a bit, and I'll give you a little honey."

And Elisyei changed the conversation, and spoke of home affairs.

Efim sighed, and no longer reminded Elisyei of the people in that hut, and told him not how he had seen him at Jerusalem. But this one thing he now understood: it is the will of God that everyone here below should work off his debt of sin by love and good works. 196