Томил его несколько вначале арест слуги, но скорая болезнь, а потом и смерть арестанта успокоили его, ибо умер тот, по всей очевидности (рассуждал он тогда), не от ареста или испуга, а от простудной болезни, приобретенной именно во дни его бегов, когда он, мертво-пьяный, валялся целую ночь на сырой земле.
At first he was worried at the arrest of the servant, but his illness and death soon set his mind at rest, for the man's death was apparently (so he reflected at the time) not owing to his arrest or his fright, but a chill he had taken on the day he ran away, when he had lain all night dead drunk on the damp ground.