Worried that his pants had been removed.
Answer: A land dispute between the two families originally starts the feud.
Explanation:
The original cause of the feud between Ulrich's and George's families was that the feud begins due to a land dispute between the two families originally starts the feud.
The grandfather of Ulrich won back the land that was illegally gotten by the ancestor of Georg in the court but Georg's family didn't accept the judgement from the court and this resulted in the feud that occured.
I believe the answer is:
1. Ivan Ilyich wanted to weep, wanted to be petted and cried over, and then his colleague Shebek would come, and instead of weeping and being petted, Ivan Ilyich would assume a serious, severe, and profound air.
2. "This falsity around him and within him did more than anything else to poison his last days
From the first sentence, the narrator infer that even when a member of rising middle class is experiencing grief, they are forced to hide it due to the concern of their social standing.
From the second sentence, the narrator infers that unability to express emotion started to eating them from the inside and make them miserable.