The preparations for marriage and the beginning of married life, with its conjugal caresses, the new furniture, new crockery, and new linen, were very pleasant until his wife became pregnant-so that Ivan Ilych had begun to think that marriage would not impair the easy, agreeable, gay and always decorous character of his life, approved of by society and regarded by himself as natural, but would even improve it.
Ezteien prozesua bera eta ezkon-bizitzaren lehen aldia ezkon-laztan, altzari berri, zerbitzu berri, arropa berri eta guzti, harik eta emaztearen haurdunaldira arte oso bizkor igaro zen, halako moldez, non Ivan Ilitx pentsatzen hasi baitzen bizitza arin, atsegin, alai, beti gisako eta gizarteak onartuari, berak bizitza orokorraren zerbait berezkotzat zeukanari, ezteiak izaera aldatu ordez areagotu egin ziola.