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The Seats of the Mighty Chapter 14
In which the narrator, confined and cut off from news, learns through the jailer Voban of the tangled intrigues, rivalries, and high-stakes gambles among the powerful figures of New France, revealing a colony beset by personal enmities and facades of loyalty. The account culminates in a vivid, tension-filled evening at the Intendance, where simmering resentments and veiled threats mark the fragile balance of authority, leaving the narrator to contemplate the ominous implications of these unfolding dramas.
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