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Candide Chapter 9 - What Became of Cunegonde, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew · The Voltaire Library

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  Speaker 1: Chapter 9 of Candide by Voltaire. Translated by Philip Lattel.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. What became
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  Speaker 1: of Cuneganda, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew? This
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  Speaker 1: Issachar was the most choleric Hebrew that had ever been
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  Speaker 1: seen in Israel since the captivity in Babylon.' What?' said he.
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  Speaker 1: thou bitch of a galilean was not the inquisitor enough
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  Speaker 1: for thee must this rascal also share with me in
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  Speaker 1: saying this he drew a long poniard which he always
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  Speaker 1: carried about him and not imagining that his adversary had
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  Speaker 1: any arms he threw himself upon candide but our honest
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  Speaker 1: westphalian had received a handsome sword from the old woman
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  Speaker 1: along with the suit of clothes he drew his rapier
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  Speaker 1: despite his gentleness and laid the israelite stone dead upon
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  Speaker 1: the cushions at cunegonde's.
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  Speaker 2: Feet holy virgin cried she what will become of us
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  Speaker 2: a man killed in my apartment if the officers of
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  Speaker 2: justice come we are lost had not pangloss been hanged
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  Speaker 2: said candide he would give us good counsel in this
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  Speaker 2: emergency for he was a profound philosopher failing him let
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  Speaker 2: us consult the old woman she was very prudent and
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  Speaker 2: commenced to give her opinion when suddenly another little door
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  Speaker 2: opened it was an hour after midnight it was the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of sunday this day belonged to my lord the
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  Speaker 2: inquisitor he entered and saw the whipped candide sword in
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  Speaker 2: hand a dead man upon the floor cunegonde aghast and
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  Speaker 2: the old woman giving counsel At this moment, the following
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  Speaker 2: is what passed in the soul of Candide, and how
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  Speaker 2: he reasoned.' If this holy man call in assistance, he
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  Speaker 2: will surely have me burnt, and Kanaganda will perhaps be
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  Speaker 2: served in the same manner.
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  Speaker 1: He was the cause of my being cruelly whipped. He
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  Speaker 1: is my rival, and as I have now begun to kill,
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  Speaker 1: I will kill away, for there is no time to hesitate.'
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  Speaker 1: This reasoning was clear and instantaneous, so that without giving
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  Speaker 1: time to the Inquisitor to recover from his surprise, he
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  Speaker 1: pierced him through and through, and cast him beside the Jew.
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  Speaker 1: Yet again, said Cunegunda.
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  Speaker 3: Now there is no mercy for us. We are excommunicated.
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  Speaker 3: Our last hour has come. How could you do it?
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  Speaker 3: you naturally so gentle to slay a jew and a
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  Speaker 3: prelate in two minutes my beautiful young lady responded candide
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  Speaker 3: when one is a lover jealous and whipped by the
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  Speaker 3: inquisition one stops at nothing the old woman then put
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  Speaker 3: in her word saying there are.
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  Speaker 4: Three andalusian horses in the stable with bridles and saddles
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  Speaker 4: Let the brave Candide get them ready. Madam has money, jewels.
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  Speaker 4: Let us therefore mount quickly on horseback, though I can
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  Speaker 4: sit only on one buttock. Let us set out for Cadiz.
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  Speaker 4: It is the finest weather in the world, and there
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  Speaker 4: is great pleasure in traveling in the cool of the night.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately Candide saddled the three horses and Cunegonda the old
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  Speaker 1: woman and he traveled thirty miles at a stretch. While
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  Speaker 1: they were journeying, the Holy Brotherhood entered the house. My
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  Speaker 1: lord the Inquisitor was interred in a handsome church, and
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  Speaker 1: Issachar's body was thrown upon a dunghill. Candide, Cuneganda, and
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  Speaker 1: the old woman had now reached the little town of Avacena,
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of the mountains of the Sierra Morena,
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  Speaker 1: and were speaking as follows. in a public inn.