ceased quarrelling also. Until the village was built up, both families lived together in one abode, and when the village was quite built up again, the farms were larger in extent, and Ivan and Gabriel were neighbours again as in one nest.
And Ivan and Gabriel lived neighbourly together as their fathers had done. And Ivan Shcherbakov remembered the counsel of the old man, and the divine precept that a fire (of hate) should be put out at the very beginning.
And if anyone did ill to him he laid wait, not to revenge himself, but to smooth matters straight again; and if anyone said an ill-word to him, he did not wait his opportunity to say a still more evil one, but how to teach such a one not to say evil things, and so also did he teach his women folk and children. And Ivan Shcherbakov amended his ways and lived better than heretofore.
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