War and Peace · Aylmer Maude translation

Note * — “Forty thousand men massacred and the army
Chapter III

“Forty thousand men massacred and the army of our allies destroyed, and you find that a cause for jesting!”

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…are merely lackeys who care nothing for their master’s business. Quarante mille hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his views by this French sentence. “C’est bien pour un garçon de rien comme cet individu dont vous avez fait un ami, mais pas pour vous, pas pour vous. *(2) Only a hobbledehoy could amuse himself in this way,” he added in Russian…

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