His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived, however chimerical the cause of it might be, was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.
Je savais qu’il avait le cœur malade ; l’anxiété constante dans laquelle il se débattait, tout aussi chimérique qu’en pût être la cause, n’en compromettait pas moins gravement sa santé.