I will not speak about the confusion which a sick lady can cause in a bachelor's house, occasionally I almost lost my patience.

For the amount of roubles which that illness cost I could very well have travelled to America and back again to St.
Petersburg; I have, however, the consolation in my reasonable trouble that the money which the doctor and chemist have received was well spent.

The lady got about again after she had caused me and Augusta just as much pain, if not more, than she herself suffered.

Perhaps you know how amiable people are when they suffer from liver trouble; I hope you may never get it.

I am not anxious to have it either, for you may do what the devil you like for such persons, and even then they are not satisfied.