“In the N⁠⸺ Regiment the officer set is a thousand times worse than here,” he continued⁠—“ J’espère que c’est beaucoup dire 96 ⁠—so that you can’t imagine what it is like! Not to mention the cadets and the soldiers⁠—it is just awful! At first I was well received, that’s perfectly true, but afterwards, when they saw I couldn’t help despising them⁠—when in those scarcely noticeable everyday relations, you know, they saw that I was a totally different sort of man, standing on a far higher level than they⁠—they were exasperated with me, and began to retaliate by subjecting me to all kinds of petty indignities. Ce que j’ai eu à souffrir, vous ne vous faites pas une idée. 97 Then, being obliged to associate with the cadets; and, above all, avec les petits moyens que j’avais, je manquais de tout , 98 I had only what my sister sent me. A proof of what I have suffered is that I, with my character, avec ma fierté, j’ai écris à mon père