Ivan Iliyit's Mischances

Ivan Iliyit's chief interest came to be people's ailments and people's health. When sickness, deaths, or recoveries were mentioned in his presence he listened with agitation which he tried to hide. The pain did not grow less but Ivan Iliy it made efforts to force himself to think that he was better. But as soon as he had any unpleasantness with his wife, and he lack of success in his official work,  he was at once acutely sensible of his disease. He would say to himself, there now, just when I was beginning to get better and the medicine had begun to take effect, comes this accursed misfortune or unpleasantness. And he