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Candide Chapter 10 - In What Distress Candide, Cunegonde, and the Old Woman Arrived at Cadiz; and of Their Embarkation · The Voltaire Library

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  Speaker 1: CHAPTER X. OF CANDIDE BY VOLTAIRE. TRANSLATED BY PHILIP LATEL.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. In what
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  Speaker 1: distress Candide, Cunegonda, and the old woman arrived at Cadiz,
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  Speaker 1: and of their embarkation.' Who was it that robbed.
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  Speaker 2: Me of my money and jewels?
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  Speaker 1: said Cunegonda, all bathed in tears.' How shall we live?
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  Speaker 2: What shall we do?' Where find inquisitors or Jews who will.
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  Speaker 1: Give me more?
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  Speaker 3: Alas, said the old woman, I have a shrewd suspicion
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  Speaker 3: of a reverend grey friar who stayed last night in
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  Speaker 3: the same inn with us at Badajos. God preserve me
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  Speaker 3: from judging rashly, but he came into our room twice,
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  Speaker 3: and he set out upon his journey long before us.
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  Speaker 1: Alas! said Candide.
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  Speaker 2: Dear Pangloss has often demonstrated to me that the goods
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  Speaker 2: of this world are common to all men, and that
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  Speaker 2: each has an equal right to them. But, according to
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  Speaker 2: these principles, the Greyfriar ought to have left us enough
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  Speaker 2: to carry us through our journey. Have you nothing at
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  Speaker 2: all left, my dear Cunegonda?'' Not.
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  Speaker 1: A farthing,' said she. what then must we do said
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  Speaker 1: candide sell one of the horses replied the old woman
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  Speaker 1: i will.
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  Speaker 3: Ride behind miss cunegonde though i can hold myself only
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  Speaker 3: on one buttock and we shall reach cadiz.
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  Speaker 1: In the same inn there was a benedictine prior who
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  Speaker 1: bought the horse for a cheap price candide cunegonde and
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  Speaker 1: the old woman having passed through lucena chillas and labrixa
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  Speaker 1: arrived at length at cadiz a fleet was there getting
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  Speaker 1: ready and troops assembling to bring to reason the reverend
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  Speaker 1: jesuit fathers of paraguay accused of having made one of
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  Speaker 1: the native tribes in the neighborhood of san sacrament revolt
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  Speaker 1: against the kings of spain and portugal having been in
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  Speaker 1: the Bulgarian service, performed the military exercise before the general
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  Speaker 1: of this little army, with so graceful an address, with
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  Speaker 1: so intrepid an air, and with such agility and expedition,
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  Speaker 1: that he was given the command of a company of foot.
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  Speaker 1: Now he was a captain. He set sail with Miss Cunegonda,
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  Speaker 1: the old woman, two valets, and two Andalusian horses, which
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  Speaker 1: had belonged to the grand inquisitor of portugal during their
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  Speaker 1: voyage they reasoned a good deal on the philosophy of
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  Speaker 1: poor pangloss we are going into another world said candide
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  Speaker 1: and surely it must be there that all is for
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  Speaker 1: the best for i must confess there is reason to
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  Speaker 1: complain a little of what passeth in our world in
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  Speaker 1: regard to both natural and moral philosophy i love you
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  Speaker 1: with all my heart said cunegonde but my soul is
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  Speaker 1: still full of fright at that which i have seen
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  Speaker 1: and experienced all will be well replied candide the sea
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  Speaker 1: of this new world is already better than our european
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  Speaker 1: sea it is calmer the winds more regular it is
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  Speaker 1: certainly the new world which is the best of all
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  Speaker 1: possible worlds god grant it said cunegonde but i have been.
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  Speaker 3: So horribly unhappy there that my heart is almost close
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  Speaker 3: to hope you complain said the old woman alas you
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  Speaker 3: have not known such misfortunes as.
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  Speaker 1: Mine cunegonde almost broke out laughing finding the good woman
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  Speaker 1: very amusing for pretending to have been as unfortunate as she.' Alas,'
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  Speaker 1: said Cunegunda, 'my good mother, unless you have been ravished
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  Speaker 1: by two Bulgarians, have received two deep wounds in your belly,
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  Speaker 1: have had two castles demolished, have had two mothers cut
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  Speaker 1: to pieces before your eyes, and two of your lovers
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  Speaker 1: whipped at an auto-d'affay,' i do not conceive how you
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  Speaker 1: could be more unfortunate than i add that.
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  Speaker 2: I was born a baroness of seventy-two quarterings and have
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  Speaker 2: been a cook.
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  Speaker 1: Miss replied the old woman you do not know my
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  Speaker 1: birth and were i.
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  Speaker 3: To show you my backside you would not talk in
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  Speaker 3: that manner but would suspend your.
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  Speaker 1: Judgment This speech having raised extreme curiosity in the minds
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  Speaker 1: of Cunegonda and Candide, the old woman spoke to them
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  Speaker 1: as follows.