The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Translated by Constance Garnett
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Inside the great building of the Law Courts, during the interval in the hearing of the Melvinsky case, the members of the judicial council and the public prosecutor were gathered together in the private room of Ivan Yegorovitch Shebek, and the conversation turned upon the celebrated Krasovsky case. Fyodor Vassilievitch hotly maintained that the case was not in the jurisdiction of the court. Yegor Ivanovitch stood up for his own view; but from the first Pyotr Ivanovitch, who had not entered into the discussion, took no interest in it, but was looking through the newspapers which had just been brought in.
“Gentlemen!” he said, “Ivan Ilyitch is dead!”
“You don’t say so!”
“Here, read it,” he said to Fyodor Vassilievitch, handing him the fresh still damp-smelling paper.
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