The Government are still vigilantly protecting Captain Dreyfus, who remains
with his relatives at Carpentras, and occupies himself with his children and a world-wide corre- spondence. His letters are full of gratitude to all who have defended him, but to English readers lack spontaneity, as is natural considering their number and their writers suffer- ings. Reports are still current of the released prisoner's intention to live in England or America, but as the popular fury dies away, and his safety becomes assured, it is more probable that he will stay on in the South, an object of curiosity but not of hatred. Though liable occasionally to fits of excitement, he appears to be perfectly sane, to be a fine-tempered man, but to have been originally both conceited and sligntly insolent. This is his own view of himself looking back on his career, and his own explanation of the personal dielik3 which he inspired in his superiors. They were accustomed to be worshipped, and Dreyfus let it be seen that he regarded them as intellectually rather inferior persons. Jews are perhaps apt to leave that impression, which scarcely wounds the stolid pride of Englishmen, but hurts Continentals very mach.
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