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And the tone ! It is useless to wrestle with description : it was the whole story of the man of the Devil's Island. Everybody in the hall sat stupid and confounded, as though a bolt had fallen from heaven. Everybody felt shy and ashamed in presence of something so incomparably more intense than they had ever known. It was rage, and it was 168 THE DREYFUS CASE. hope just a tiny dash of hope to embitter the flavour of utter despair. It was passion that a man who always lived among men could never... feel, and that passion was trying to burst out all in a phrase and did not know the way. The torment of a dead soul, knowing itself dead, in one anguished strain to break through into life again all that was in four words of Dreyfus. It told his whole history : there is no other man on earth that could have uttered it. II. THE EFFECT ON FRANCE. 1 Out-of-doors, under the baking sun of August, lie the somnolent streets of Rennes. The tall yellow- plastered houses, all with their yellow-painted blinds hermetically shut, are faultlessly clean.
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