1During an interval in the Melvinski trial in the large building of the Law Courts the members and public prosecutor met in Ivan 2Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.3So Ivan Ilych lived for seventeen years after his marriage. He was already a Public Prosecutor of long standing, and had decline4They were all in good health. It could not be called ill health if Ivan Ilych sometimes said that he had a queer taste in his mo5So one month passed and then another. Just before the New Year his brother-in-law came to town and stayed at their house. Ivan I6Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair.7How it happened it is impossible to say because it came about step by step, unnoticed, but in the third month of Ivan Ilych's il8It was morning. He knew it was morning because Gerasim had gone, and Peter the footman had come and put out the candles, drawn b9His wife returned late at night. She came in on tiptoe, but he heard her, opened his eyes, and made haste to close them again. S10Another fortnight passed. Ivan Ilych now no longer left his sofa. He would not lie in bed but lay on the sofa, facing the wall n11Another two weeks went by in this way and during that fortnight an event occurred that Ivan Ilych and his wife had desired. Petr12From that moment the screaming began that continued for three days, and was so terrible that one could not hear it through two c
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