Chapter 31

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Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine? Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water and because his ruler has a quarrelwith mine?Blaise Pascal Jack pored over the pile of paperwork that seemed to multiply each day. Even though the adjutant dealt with much of the administration, there still seemed sufficient to weigh down his desk. He lifted his pen, dipped the nib in the inkwell, shook off the excess ink and carefully signed his name to the next official form. Perhaps an army marched on its stomach, as Napoleon Bonaparte allegedly said, but it carried reams of paper on i

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