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
sensation like seasickness.