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Candide Chapter 7 - How the Old Woman Took Care of Candide, and How He Found the Object He Loved · The Voltaire Library

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  Speaker 1: CHAPTER VII. How the old woman took care of Candide,
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  Speaker 1: and how he found the object he loved. Candide did
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  Speaker 1: not take courage, but followed the old woman to a
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  Speaker 1: decayed house, where she gave him a pot of pomatum
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  Speaker 1: to anoint his sores, showed him a very neat little bed,
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  Speaker 1: with a suit of clothes hanging up and left him
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  Speaker 1: something to eat and drink.
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  Speaker 2: Eat drink sleep said she and may our lady of
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  Speaker 2: atocha the great saint anthony of padua and the great
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  Speaker 2: saint james of compostella receive you under their protection i
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  Speaker 2: shall be back.
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  Speaker 1: To-morrow candide amazed at all he had suffered and still
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  Speaker 1: more with the charity of the old woman wished to
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  Speaker 1: kiss her hand it is not my hand you must
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  Speaker 1: kiss said the old woman.
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  Speaker 2: I shall be back to-morrow anoint yourself with pomatum eat.
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  Speaker 1: And sleep candide notwithstanding so many disasters ate and slept
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  Speaker 1: the next morning the old woman brought him his breakfast
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  Speaker 1: looked at his back and rubbed it herself with another
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  Speaker 1: ointment in like manner she brought him his dinner and
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  Speaker 1: at night she returned with his supper the day following
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  Speaker 1: she went through the very same ceremonies who are you
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  Speaker 1: said candide.
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  Speaker 3: Who has inspired you with so much goodness what return
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  Speaker 3: can i make.
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  Speaker 1: You the good woman made no answer she returned in
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  Speaker 1: the evening but brought no supper come with me she
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  Speaker 1: said and say nothing She took him by the arm
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  Speaker 1: and walked with him about a quarter of a mile
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  Speaker 1: into the country. They arrived at a lonely house, surrounded
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  Speaker 1: with gardens and canals. The old woman knocked at a
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  Speaker 1: little door.
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  Speaker 4: It opened.
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  Speaker 1: She led Candide up a private staircase into a small
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  Speaker 1: apartment richly furnished. She left him on a brocaded sofa,
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  Speaker 1: shut the door, and went away. Candide thought himself in
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  Speaker 1: a dream, indeed, that he had been dreaming unluckily all
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  Speaker 1: his life, and that the present moment was the only
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  Speaker 1: agreeable part of it all. The old woman returned very soon,
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  Speaker 1: supporting with difficulty a trembling woman of a majestic figure,
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  Speaker 1: brilliant with jewels and covered with a veil.
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  Speaker 2: Take off that veil.
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  Speaker 1: said the old woman to Candide, The young man approaches.
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  Speaker 1: He raises the veil with a timid hand. Oh, what
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  Speaker 1: a moment!
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  Speaker 2: What surprise!
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  Speaker 3: He believes he beholds Miss Kuniganda?
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  Speaker 1: He really sees her.
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  Speaker 3: It is herself.
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  Speaker 1: His strength fails him. He cannot utter a word but
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  Speaker 1: drops at her feet. Kuniganda falls upon the sofa. The
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  Speaker 1: old woman supplies a smelling-bottle. they come to themselves and
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  Speaker 1: recover their speech as they began with broken accents with
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  Speaker 1: questions and answers interchangeably interrupted with sighs with tears and
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  Speaker 1: cries the old woman desired they would make less noise
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  Speaker 1: and then she left them to themselves what is it
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  Speaker 1: you said candide you.
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  Speaker 3: Live i find you again in portugal Then you have
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  Speaker 3: not been ravished? Then they did not rip open your
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  Speaker 3: belly as Dr. Pangloss informed me? Yes, they did, said
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  Speaker 3: the beautiful Kunigunda. But those two accidents are not always mortal.
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  Speaker 3: But were your father and mother killed?
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  Speaker 1: It is but too true, answered Kunigunda in tears.
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  Speaker 3: And your brother? My brother also was killed. And why
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  Speaker 3: are you in Portugal? And how did you know of
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  Speaker 3: my being here? And by what strange adventure did you
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  Speaker 3: contrive to bring me to this house?
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  Speaker 4: I will tell you all that, replied the lady, but
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  Speaker 4: first of all let me know your history, since the
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  Speaker 4: innocent kiss you gave me and the kicks which you received.
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  Speaker 1: Candide respectfully obeyed her, and though he was still in
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  Speaker 1: a surprise, though his voice was feeble and trembling, though
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  Speaker 1: his back still pained him, yet he gave her a
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  Speaker 1: most ingenuous account of everything that had befallen him since
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  Speaker 1: the moment of their separation. Cunegonda lifted up her eyes
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  Speaker 1: to heaven, shed tears upon hearing of the death of
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  Speaker 1: the good Anabaptist, and of Pangloss. after which she spoke
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  Speaker 1: as follows to Candide, who did not lose a word,
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  Speaker 1: and devoured her with his eyes.