Le médecin sortit, alla au salon et déclara à Prascovie Fédorovna que son mari allait très mal, et que le seul moyen d’apaiser ses souffrances, qui devaient être atroces, c’était de lui administrer de l’opium. Le docteur avait raison de dire que les souffrances physiques d’Ivan Ilitch étaient intolérables. C’était vrai. Mais ses souffrances morales

"And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop went on:— "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, evidently."

me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation