When Nekhludoff found that he would have to speak in similar

conditions, a feeling of indignation against those who were able

to make and enforce these conditions arose in him; he was

surprised that, placed in such a dreadful position, no one seemed

offended at this outrage on human feelings. The soldiers, the

inspector, the prisoners themselves, acted as if acknowledging

all this to be necessary.

Nekhludoff remained in this room for about five minutes, feeling

strangely depressed, conscious of how powerless he was, and at

variance with all the world. He was seized with a curious moral

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