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Tolstoi + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Where Love Is There God Is Also + +Author: Lyof N. Tolstoi + +Translator: Nathan Haskell Dole + +Release Date: January 18, 2012 [EBook #38616] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHERE LOVE IS THERE GOD IS ALSO *** + + + + +Produced by Gerard Arthus, Charlene Taylor, Jana Srna and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Archive/American +Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div id="tnote"> +<p class="center"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></p> + +<p>Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully +as possible, including any non-standard spelling.</p> +</div> +<p class="center page-break" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.6;"><big>WHERE LOVE IS</big><br/> +THERE GOD IS ALSO</p> + +<h1><big>WHERE LOVE IS</big><br/> +THERE GOD IS ALSO</h1> + +<p class="center" style="line-height: 1.6;"><small>BY</small><br/> +<big>LYOF N. TOLSTOI</big></p> + +<p class="center" style="line-height: 1.8; margin: 4em auto;"><i>TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN</i><br/> +<small>BY</small><br/> +NATHAN HASKELL DOLE</p> + +<p class="center" style="line-height: 1.4;">NEW YORK<br/> +THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY<br/> +PUBLISHERS</p> + +<p class="center page-break"><i>Copyright, 1887</i>,<br/> +<span class="small-caps">By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.</span></p> + +<p class="center page-break" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 2em;"><big>WHERE LOVE IS</big><br/> +THERE GOD IS ALSO</p> + +<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">In</span> the city lived the shoemaker, Martuin +Avdyeitch. He lived in a basement, in a +little room with one window. The window +looked out on the street. Through the +window he used to watch the people passing +by; although only their feet could be seen, +yet by the boots, Martuin Avdyeitch recognized +the people. Martuin Avdyeitch had +lived long in one place, and had many +acquaintances. Few pairs of boots in his +district had not been in his hands once and +again. Some he would half-sole, some he +would patch, some he would stitch around, +and occasionally he would also put on new +uppers. And through the window he often +recognized his work.</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch had plenty to do, because he +was a faithful workman, used good material, +did not make exorbitant charges, and kept +his word. If it was possible for him to finish +an order by a certain time, he would accept +it; otherwise, he would not deceive you,—he +would tell you so beforehand. And all +knew Avdyeitch, and he was never out of +work.</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch had always been a good man; +but as he grew old, he began to think more +about his soul, and get nearer to God. +Martuin's wife had died when he was still +living with his master. His wife left him a +boy three years old. None of their other +children had lived. All the eldest had died +in childhood. Martuin at first intended to +send his little son to his sister in the village, +but afterward he felt sorry for him; he +thought to himself:—</p> + +<p>“It will be hard for my Kapitoshka to live +in a strange family. I shall keep him with +me.”</p> + +<p>And Avdyeitch left his master, and went +into lodgings with his little son. But God +gave Avdyeitch no luck with his children. +As Kapitoshka grew older, he began to help +his father, and would have been a delight to +him, but a sickness fell on him, he went to +bed, suffered a week, and died. Martuin +buried his son, and fell into despair. So +deep was this despair that he began to +complain of God. Martuin fell into such +a melancholy state, that more than once +he prayed to God for death, and reproached +God because He had not taken him who +was an old man, instead of his beloved +only son. Avdyeitch also ceased to go to +church.</p> + +<p>And once a little old man from the same +district came from Troïtsa<a name="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">(1)</a> to see Avdyeitch; +for seven years he had been wandering about. +Avdyeitch talked with him, and began to +complain about his sorrows.</p> + +<p>“I have no desire to live any longer,” he +said, “I only wish I was dead. That is all +I pray God for. I am a man without anything +to hope for now.”</p> + +<p>And the little old man said to him:—</p> + +<p>“You don't talk right, Martuin, we must +not judge God's doings. The world moves, +not by our skill, but by God's will. God +decreed for your son to die,—for you—to +live. So it is for the best. And you are in +despair, because you wish to live for your +own happiness.”</p> + +<p>“But what shall one live for?” asked +Martuin.</p> + +<p>And the little old man said:—</p> + +<p>“We must live for God, Martuin. He +gives you life, and for His sake you must +live. When you begin to live for Him, you +will not grieve over anything, and all will +seem easy to you.”</p> + +<p>Martuin kept silent for a moment, and then +said, “But how can one live for God?”</p> + +<p>And the little old man said:—</p> + +<p>“Christ has taught us how to live for God. +You know how to read? Buy a Testament, +and read it; there you will learn how to live +for God. Everything is explained there.”</p> + +<p>And these words kindled a fire in +Avdyeitch's heart. And he went that very +same day, bought a New Testament in large +print, and began to read.</p> + +<p>At first Avdyeitch intended to read only on +holidays; but as he began to read, it so +cheered his soul that he used to read every +day. At times he would become so absorbed +in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp +would burn out, and still he could not tear +himself away. And so Avdyeitch used to +read every evening.</p> + +<p>And the more he read, the clearer he +understood what God wanted of him, and +how one should live for God; and his heart +kept growing easier and easier. Formerly, +when he lay down to sleep, he used to sigh +and groan, and always thought of his +Kapitoshka; and now his only exclamation +was:—</p> + +<p>“Glory to Thee! glory to Thee, Lord! +Thy will be done.”</p> + +<p>And from that time Avdyeitch's whole life +was changed. In other days he, too, used to +drop into a public-house<a name="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">(2)</a> as a holiday amusement, +to drink a cup of tea; and he was not +averse to a little brandy, either. He would +take a drink with some acquaintance, and +leave the saloon, not intoxicated, exactly, yet +in a happy frame of mind, and inclined to +talk nonsense, and shout, and use abusive +language at a person. Now he left off that +sort of thing. His life became quiet and +joyful. In the morning he would sit down +to work, finish his allotted task, then take +the little lamp from the hook, put it on the +table, get his book from the shelf, open it, +and sit down to read. And the more he read, +the more he understood, and the brighter and +happier it grew in his heart.</p> + +<p>Once it happened that Martuin read till +late into the night. He was reading the +Gospel of Luke. He was reading over the +sixth chapter; and he was reading the +verses:—</p> + +<p>“<i>And unto him that smiteth thee on the +one cheek offer also the other; and him that +taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy +coat also. Give to every man that asketh of +thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods +ask them not again. And as ye would that +men should do to you, do ye also to them +likewise.</i>”</p> + +<p>He read farther also those verses, where +God speaks:</p> + +<p>“<i>And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do +not the things which I say? Whosoever cometh +to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, +I will shew you to whom he is like: he is like +a man which built an house, and digged deep, +and laid the foundation on a rock: and when +the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently +upon that house, and could not shake it; for it +was founded upon a rock. But he that heareth, +and doeth not, is like a man that without a +foundation built an house upon the earth; +against which the stream did beat vehemently, +and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that +house was great.</i>”</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch read these words, and joy filled +his soul. He took off his spectacles, put +them down on the book, leaned his elbows +on the table, and became lost in thought. +And he began to measure his life by these +words. And he thought to himself:—</p> + +<p>“Is my house built on the rock, or on the +sand? 'Tis well if on the rock. It is so +easy when you are alone by yourself; it +seems as if you had done everything as God +commands; but when you forget yourself, +you sin again. Yet I shall still struggle on. +It is very good. Help me, Lord!”</p> + +<p>Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to +bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away +from the book. And he began to read farther +in the seventh chapter. He read about the +centurion, he read about the widow's son, +he read about the answer given to John's +disciples, and finally he came to that place +where the rich Pharisee desired the Lord to +sit at meat with him; and he read how the +woman that was a sinner anointed His feet, +and washed them with her tears, and how +He forgave her. He reached the forty-fourth +verse, and began to read:—</p> + +<p>“<i>And he turned to the woman, and said +unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered +into thine house, thou gavest me no water for +my feet: but she hath washed my feet with +tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her +head. Thou gavest me no kiss: but this +woman since the time I came in hath not ceased +to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst +not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my +feet with ointment.</i>”</p> + +<p>He finished reading these verses, and +thought to himself:—</p> + +<p>“<i>Thou gavest me no water for my feet, thou +gavest me no kiss. My head with oil thou +didst not anoint.</i>”</p> + +<p>And again Avdyeitch took off his spectacles, +put them down on the book, and again he +became lost in thought.</p> + +<p>“It seems that Pharisee must have been +such a man as I am. I, too, apparently have +thought only of myself,—how I might have +my tea, be warm and comfortable, but never +to think about my guest. He thought about +himself, but there was not the least care taken +of the guest. And who was his guest? The +Lord Himself. If He had come to me, should +I have done the same way?”</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch rested his head upon both his +arms, and did not notice that he fell asleep.</p> + +<p>“Martuin!” suddenly seemed to sound in +his ears.</p> + +<p>Martuin started from his sleep:—</p> + +<p>“Who is here?”</p> + +<p>He turned around, glanced toward the +door—no one.</p> + +<p>Again he fell into a doze. Suddenly, he +plainly heard:—</p> + +<p>“Martuin! Ah, Martuin! look to-morrow +on the street. I am coming.”</p> + +<p>Martuin awoke, rose from the chair, began +to rub his eyes. He himself could not tell +whether he heard those words in his dream, +or in reality. He turned down his lamp, and +went to bed.</p> + +<p>At daybreak next morning, Avdyeitch rose, +made his prayer to God, lighted the stove, +put on the shchi<a name="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">(3)</a> and the kasha,<a name="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">(4)</a> put the +water in the samovar, put on his apron, and +sat down by the window to work.</p> + +<p>And while he was working, he kept thinking +about all that had happened the day before. +It seemed to him at one moment that it was +a dream, and now he had really heard a voice.</p> + +<p>“Well,” he said to himself, “such things +have been.”</p> + +<p>Martuin was sitting by the window, and +looking out more than he was working. +When anyone passed by in boots which he +did not know, he would bend down, look out +of the window, in order to see, not only the +feet, but also the face.</p> + +<p>The dvornik<a name="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">(5)</a> passed by in new felt boots,<a name="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">(6)</a> +the water-carrier passed by; then there came +up to the window an old soldier of Nicholas's +time, in an old pair of laced felt boots, with +a shovel in his hands. Avdyeitch recognized +him by his felt boots. The old man's name +was Stepanuitch; and a neighboring merchant, +out of charity, gave him a home with +him. He was required to assist the dvornik. +Stepanuitch began to shovel away the snow +from in front of Avdyeitch's window. +Avdyeitch glanced at him, and took up his +work again.</p> + +<p>“Pshaw! I must be getting crazy in my +old age,” said Avdyeitch, and laughed at +himself. “Stepanuitch is clearing away the +snow, and I imagine that Christ is coming to +see me. I was entirely out of my mind, old +dotard that I am!”</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch sewed about a dozen stitches, +and then felt impelled to look through the +window again. He looked out again through +the window, and saw that Stepanuitch had +leaned his shovel against the wall, and was +warming himself, and resting. He was an +old, broken-down man; evidently he had not +strength enough even to shovel the snow. +Avdyeitch said to himself:—</p> + +<p>“I will give him some tea; by the way, +the samovar has only just gone out.” +Avdyeitch laid down his awl, rose from his +seat, put the samovar on the table, poured +out the tea, and tapped with his finger at the +glass. Stepanuitch turned around, and came +to the window. Avdyeitch beckoned to him, +and went to open the door.</p> + +<p>“Come in, warm yourself a little,” he said. +“You must be cold.”</p> + +<p>“May Christ reward you for this! my +bones ache,” said Stepanuitch.</p> + +<p>Stepanuitch came in, and shook off the +snow, tried to wipe his feet, so as not to soil +the floor, but staggered.</p> + +<p>“Don't trouble to wipe your feet. I will +clean it up myself; we are used to such +things. Come in and sit down,” said +Avdyeitch. “Here, drink a cup of tea.”</p> + +<p>And Avdyeitch lifted two glasses, and +handed one to his guest; while he himself +poured his tea into a saucer, and began to +blow it.</p> + +<p>Stepanuitch finished drinking his glass of +tea, turned the glass upside down,<a name="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">(7)</a> put the +half-eaten lump of sugar on it, and began to +express his thanks. But it was evident he +wanted some more.</p> + +<p>“Have some more,” said Avdyeitch, filling +both his own glass and his guest's. Avdyeitch +drank his tea, but from time to time glanced +out into the street.</p> + +<p>“Are you expecting anyone?” asked his +guest.</p> + +<p>“Am I expecting anyone? I am ashamed +even to tell whom I expect. I am, and I am +not, expecting someone; but one word has +kindled a fire in my heart. Whether it is a +dream, or something else, I do not know. +Don't you see, brother, I was reading yesterday +the Gospel about Christ the Batyushka; +how He suffered, how He walked on the earth. +I suppose you have heard about it?”</p> + +<p>“Indeed I have,” replied Stepanuitch; “but +we are people in darkness, we can't read.”</p> + +<p>“Well, now, I was reading about that very +thing,—how He walked on the earth; I read, +you know, how He came to the Pharisee, and +the Pharisee did not treat Him hospitably. +Well, and so, my brother, I was reading +yesterday, about this very thing, and was +thinking to myself how he did not receive +Christ, the Batyushka, with honor. Suppose, +for example, He should come to me, or anyone +else, I said to myself, I should not even +know how to receive Him. And he gave +Him no reception at all. Well! while I was +thus thinking, I fell asleep, brother, and I +heard someone call me by name. I got up; +the voice, just as if someone whispered, said, +‘Be on the watch; I shall come to-morrow.’ +And this happened twice. Well! would you +believe it, it got into my head? I scolded +myself—and yet I am expecting Him, the +Batyushka.”</p> + +<p>Stepanuitch shook his head, and said +nothing; he finished drinking his glass of tea, +and put it on the side; but Avdyeitch picked +up the glass again, and filled it once more.</p> + +<p>“Drink some more for your good health. +You see, I have an idea that, when the +Batyushka went about on this earth, He +disdained no one, and had more to do with +the simple people. He always went to +see the simple people. He picked out His +disciples more from among folk like such +sinners as we are, from the working class. +Said He, whoever exalts himself, shall be +humbled, and he who is humbled shall become +exalted. Said He, you call me Lord, +and, said He, I wash your feet. Whoever +wishes, said He, to be the first, the same +shall be a servant to all. Because, said He, +blessed are the poor, the humble, the kind, +the generous.”</p> + +<p>And Stepanuitch forgot about his tea; he +was an old man, and easily moved to tears. +He was listening, and the tears rolled down +his face.</p> + +<p>“Come, now, have some more tea,” said +Avdyeitch; but Stepanuitch made the sign of +the cross, thanked him, turned down his +glass, and arose.</p> + +<p>“Thanks to you,” he says, “Martuin +Avdyeitch, for treating me kindly, and satisfying +me, soul and body.”</p> + +<p>“You are welcome; come in again; always +glad to see a friend,” said Avdyeitch.</p> + +<p>Stepanuitch departed; and Martuin poured +out the rest of the tea, drank it up, put away +the dishes, and sat down again by the window +to work, to stitch on a patch. He kept +stitching away, and at the same time looking +through the window. He was expecting +Christ, and was all the while thinking of Him +and His deeds, and his head was filled with +the different speeches of Christ.</p> + +<p>Two soldiers passed by: one wore boots +furnished by the crown, and the other one, +boots that he had made; then the master<a name="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">(8)</a> of +the next house passed by in shining galoshes; +then a baker with a basket passed by. All +passed by; and now there came also by the +window a woman in woolen stockings and +rustic bashmaks on her feet. She passed +by the window, and stood still near the +window-case.</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch looked up at her from the +window, and saw it was a stranger, a woman +poorly clad, and with a child; she was standing +by the wall with her back to the wind, trying +to wrap up the child, and she had nothing to +wrap it up in. The woman was dressed in +shabby summer clothes; and from behind +the frame, Avdyeitch could hear the child +crying, and the woman trying to pacify it; +but she was not able to pacify it.</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch got up, went to the door, ascended +the steps, and cried:—</p> + +<p>“My good woman. Hey! my good +woman!”<a name="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">(9)</a></p> + +<p>The woman heard him and turned around.</p> + +<p>“Why are you standing in the cold with +the child? Come into my room, where it is +warm; you can manage it better. Here, +this way!”</p> + +<p>The woman was astonished. She saw an +old, old man in an apron, with spectacles on +his nose, calling her to him. She followed +him. They descended the steps and entered +the room; the old man led the woman to +his bed.</p> + +<p>“There,” says he, “sit down, my good +woman, nearer to the stove; you can get +warm, and nurse the little one.”</p> + +<p>“I have no milk for him. I myself have +not eaten anything since morning,” said the +woman; but, nevertheless, she took the baby +to her breast.</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch shook his head, went to the table, +brought out the bread and a dish, opened the +oven door, poured into the dish some cabbage +soup, took out the pot with the gruel, +but it was not cooked as yet; so he filled the +dish with shchi only, and put it on the table. +He got the bread, took the towel down from +the hook, and spread it upon the table.</p> + +<p>“Sit down,” he says, “and eat, my good +woman; and I will mind the little one. You +see, I once had children of my own; I know +how to handle them.”</p> + +<p>The woman crossed herself, sat down at +the table, and began to eat; while Avdyeitch +took a seat on the bed near the infant. +Avdyeitch kept smacking and smacking to it +with his lips; but it was a poor kind of +smacking, for he had no teeth. The little +one kept on crying. And it occured to +Avdyeitch to threaten the little one with his +finger; he waved, waved his finger right +before the child's mouth, and hastily withdrew +it. He did not put it to its mouth, +because his finger was black, and soiled with +wax. And the little one looked at his finger, +and became quiet; then it began to smile, +and Avdyeitch also was glad. While the +woman was eating, she told who she was, +and whither she was going.</p> + +<p>Said she:—</p> + +<p>“I am a soldier's wife. It is now seven +months since they sent my husband away off, +and no tidings. I lived out as cook; the +baby was born; no one cared to keep me +with a child. This is the third month that +I have been struggling along without a place. +I ate up all I had. I wanted to engage as a +wet-nurse—no one would take me—I am +too thin, they say. I have just been to the +merchant's wife, where lives a young woman +I know, and so they promised to take us in. +I thought that was the end of it. But she +told me to come next week. And she lives +a long way off. I got tired out; and it tired +him, too, my heart's darling. Fortunately, +our landlady takes pity on us for the sake +of Christ, and gives us a room, else I don't +know how I should manage to get along.”</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch sighed, and said:</p> + +<p>“Haven't you any warm clothes?”</p> + +<p>“Now is the time, friend, to wear warm +clothes; but yesterday I pawned my last +shawl for a twenty-kopek piece.”<a name="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">(10)</a></p> + +<p>The woman came to the bed, and took the +child; and Avdyeitch rose, went to the partition, +rummaged round, and succeeded in +finding an old coat.</p> + +<p>“Na!” says he; “It is a poor thing, yet +you may turn it to some use.”</p> + +<p>The woman looked at the coat and looked +at the old man; she took the coat, and burst +into tears; and Avdyeitch turned away his +head; crawling under the bed, he pushed out +a little trunk, rummaged in it, and sat down +again opposite the woman.</p> + +<p>And the woman said:—</p> + +<p>“May Christ bless you, little grandfather!<a name="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">(11)</a> +He must have sent me to your window. My +little baby would have frozen to death. When +I started out it was warm, but now it has +grown cold. And He, the Batyushka, led +you to look through the window and take +pity on me, an unfortunate.”</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch smiled, and said:—</p> + +<p>“Indeed, He did that! I have been looking +through the window, my good woman, for +some wise reason.”</p> + +<p>And Martuin told the soldier's wife his +dream, and how he heard the voice,—how +the Lord promised to come and see him +that day.</p> + +<p>“All things are possible,” said the +woman. She rose, put on the coat, +wrapped up her little child in it; and, as +she started to take leave, she thanked +Avdyeitch again.</p> + +<p>“Take this, for Christ's sake,” said Avdyeitch, +giving her a twenty-kopek piece; +“redeem your shawl.”</p> + +<p>She made the sign of the cross, and Avdyeitch +made the sign of the cross and went +with her to the door.</p> + +<p>The woman went away. Avdyeitch ate +some shchi, washed the dishes, and sat down +again to work. While he was working he +still remembered the window; when the +window grew darker he immediately looked +out to see who was passing by. Acquaintances +passed by and strangers passed by, and there +was nothing out of the ordinary.</p> + +<p>But here Avdyeitch saw that an old apple +woman had stopped in front of his window. +She carried a basket with apples. Only a few +were left, as she had evidently sold them +nearly all out; and over her shoulder she had +a bag full of chips. She must have gathered +them up in some new building, and was on +her way home. One could see that the bag +was heavy on her shoulder; she tried to shift +it to the other shoulder. So she lowered the +bag on the sidewalk, stood the basket with +the apples on a little post, and began to shake +down the splinters in the bag. And while +she was shaking her bag, a little boy in a torn +cap came along, picked up an apple from the +basket, and was about to make his escape; +but the old woman noticed it, turned around, +and caught the youngster by his sleeve. The +little boy began to struggle, tried to tear himself +away; but the old woman grasped him +with both hands, knocked off his cap, and +caught him by the hair.</p> + +<p>The little boy was screaming, the old +woman was scolding. Avdyeitch lost no +time in putting away his awl; he threw it +upon the floor, sprang to the door,—he +even stumbled on the stairs, and dropped +his spectacles,—and rushed out into the +street.</p> + +<p>The old woman was pulling the youngster +by his hair, and was scolding and threatening +to take him to the policeman; the youngster +was defending himself, and denying the charge.</p> + +<p>“I did not take it,” he said; “What are +you licking me for? Let me go!”</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch tried to separate them. He took +the boy by his arm, and said:—</p> + +<p>“Let him go, babushka; forgive him, for +Christ's sake.”</p> + +<p>“I will forgive him so that he won't forget +it till the new broom grows. I am going to +take the little villain to the police.”</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch began to entreat the old woman:—</p> + +<p>“Let him go, babushka,” he said, “he +will never do it again. Let him go, for +Christ's sake.”</p> + +<p>The old woman let him loose; the boy +started to run, but Avdyeitch kept him back.</p> + +<p>“Ask the babushka's forgiveness,” he said, +“and don't you ever do it again; I saw you +take the apple.”</p> + +<p>The boy burst into tears, and began to ask +forgiveness.</p> + +<p>“There now! that's right; and here's an +apple for you.”</p> + +<p>And Avdyeitch took an apple from the +basket, and gave it to the boy.</p> + +<p>“I will pay you for it, babushka,” he said +to the old woman.</p> + +<p>“You ruin them that way, the good-for-nothings,” +said the old woman. “He ought +to be treated so that he would remember it +for a whole week.”</p> + +<p>“Eh, babushka, babushka,” said Avdyeitch, +“that is right according to our judgment, but +not according to God's. If he is to be whipped +for an apple, then what ought to be done to +us for our sins?”</p> + +<p>The old woman was silent.</p> + +<p>And Avdyeitch told her the parable of the +master who forgave a debtor all that he owed +him, and how the debtor went and began to +choke one who owed him.</p> + +<p>The old woman listened, and the boy +stood listening.</p> + +<p>“God has commanded us to forgive,” said +Avdyeitch, “else we, too, may not be forgiven. +All should be forgiven, and the thoughtless +especially.”</p> + +<p>The old woman shook her head, and sighed.</p> + +<p>“That's so,” said she; “but the trouble is +that they are very much spoiled.”</p> + +<p>“Then we who are older must teach them,” +said Avdyeitch.</p> + +<p>“That's just what I say,” remarked the +old woman. “I myself have had seven of +them,—only one daughter is left.”</p> + +<p>And the old woman began to relate where +and how she lived with her daughter, and +how many grandchildren she had. “Here,” +she says, “my strength is only so-so, and +yet I have to work. I pity the youngsters—my +grandchildren—but what nice children +they are! No one gives me such a welcome +as they do. Aksintka won't go to anyone but +me. ‘Babushka, dear babushka, lovliest.’”</p> + +<p>And the old woman grew quite sentimental.</p> + +<p>“Of course, it is a childish trick. God be +with him,” said she, pointing to the boy.</p> + +<p>The woman was just about to lift the bag +up on her shoulder, when the boy ran up, +and said:—</p> + +<p>“Let me carry it, babushka; it is on my +way.”</p> + +<p>The old woman nodded her head, and put +the bag on the boy's back.</p> + +<p>And side by side they passed along the +street.</p> + +<p>And the old woman even forgot to ask +Avdyeitch to pay for the apple. Avdyeitch +stood motionless, and kept gazing after them; +and he heard them talking all the time as they +walked away. After Avdyeitch saw them +disappear, he returned to his room; he found +his eye-glasses on the stairs,—they were not +broken; he picked up his awl, and sat down +to work again.</p> + +<p>After working a little while, it grew darker, +so that he could not see to sew; he saw the +lamplighter passing by to light the street-lamps.</p> + +<p>“It must be time to make a light,” he said +to himself; so he got his little lamp ready, +hung it up, and he took himself again to his +work. He had one boot already finished; +he turned it around, looked at it: “Well +done.” He put away his tools, swept off the +cuttings, cleared off the bristles and ends, +took the lamp, set it on the table, and took +down the Gospels from the shelf. He intended +to open the book at the very place where he +had yesterday put a piece of leather as a mark, +but it happened to open at another place; and +the moment Avdyeitch opened the Testament, +he recollected his last night's dream. And as +soon as he remembered it, it seemed as if he +heard someone stepping about behind him. +Avdyeitch looked around, and saw—there, +in the dark corner, it seemed as if people were +standing; he was at a loss to know who they +were. And a voice whispered in his ear:—</p> + +<p>“Martuin—ah, Martuin! did you not +recognize me?”</p> + +<p>“Who?” exclaimed Avdyeitch.</p> + +<p>“Me,” repeated the voice. “It was I;” +and Stepanuitch stepped forth from the dark +corner; he smiled, and like a little cloud +faded away, and soon vanished.</p> + +<p>“And it was I,” said the voice.</p> + +<p>From the dark corner stepped forth the +woman with her child; the woman smiled, +the child laughed, and they also vanished,</p> + +<p>“And it was I,” continued the voice; both +the old woman and the boy with the apple +stepped forward; both smiled and vanished.</p> + +<p>Avdyeitch's soul rejoiced; he crossed himself, +put on his spectacles, and began to read +the Evangelists where it happened to open. +On the upper part of the page he read:—</p> + +<p>“<i>For I was an hungered, and ye gave me +meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; +I was a stranger, and ye took me in.</i>”</p> + +<p>And on the lower part of the page he read +this:—</p> + +<p>“<i>Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of +the least of these my brethren, ye have done it +unto me.</i>”—St. Matthew, Chap. xxv.</p> + +<p>And Avdyeitch understood that his dream +had not deceived him; that the Saviour really +called on him that day, and that he really +received Him.</p> + + +<div class="footnotes"> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">(1)</a> +Trinity, a famous monastery, pilgrimage to which is +reckoned a virtue. Avdyeitch calls this <i>zemlyak-starichok</i>, +<i>Bozhi chelovyek</i>, God's man.—<span class="small-caps">Ed.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">(2)</a> +<i>Traktir.</i> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">(3)</a> +Cabbage-soup. +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">(4)</a> +Gruel. +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">(5)</a> +House-porter. +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">(6)</a> +<i>Valenki.</i> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">(7)</a> +To signify he was satisfied; a custom among the Russians.—<span class="small-caps">Ed.</span> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">(8)</a> +<i>Khozyaïn.</i> +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">(9)</a> +<i>Umnitsa aumnitsa!</i> literally, clever one. +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">(10)</a> +<i>Dvagrivennui</i>, silver, worth sixteen cents. +</p> +</div> + +<div class="footnote"> +<p><a name="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">(11)</a> +<i>Diedushka.</i> +</p> +</div> +</div> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Where Love Is There God Is Also, by Lyof N. 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