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Candide Chapter 8 - The History of Cunegonde · The Voltaire Library

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  Speaker 1: I was in bed and fast asleep when it pleased
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  Speaker 1: God to send the Bulgarians to our delightful castle of
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  Speaker 1: Thunderton Trunk. They slew my father and brother and cut
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  Speaker 1: my mother in pieces.
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  Speaker 2: A tall Bulgarian, six feet high, perceiving that I had
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  Speaker 2: fainted away at this sight, began to ravish me. This
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  Speaker 2: made me recover. I regained my senses. I cried. I struggled.
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  Speaker 2: I bit. I scratched. I wanted to tear out the
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  Speaker 2: tall Bulgarian's eyes, not knowing that what happened at my
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  Speaker 2: father's house was the usual practice of war. THE BRUTE
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  Speaker 2: GAVE ME A CUT IN THE LEFT SIDE WITH HIS HANGER,
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  Speaker 2: AND THE MARK IS STILL UPON ME.
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  Speaker 1: AH, I HOPE I SHALL SEE IT, SAID HONEST CANDIDE.
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  Speaker 1: YOU SHALL, SAID KUNIGUNDA.
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  Speaker 2: BUT LET US CONTINUE.
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  Speaker 1: DO SO, REPLIED CANDIDE. THUS SHE RESUMED THE THREAD OF
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  Speaker 1: HER STORY.
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  Speaker 2: A Bulgarian captain came in, saw me all bleeding and
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  Speaker 2: the soldier not in the least disconcerted. The captain flew
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  Speaker 2: into a passion at the disrespectful behavior of the brute
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  Speaker 2: and slew him on my body. He ordered my wounds
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  Speaker 2: to be dressed and took me to his quarters as
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  Speaker 2: a prisoner of war. I washed the few shirts that
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  Speaker 2: he had. I did his cooking. he thought me very
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  Speaker 2: pretty he avowed it on the other hand i must
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  Speaker 2: own he had a good shape and a soft and
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  Speaker 2: white skin but he had little or no mind or
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  Speaker 2: philosophy and you might see plainly that he had never
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  Speaker 2: been instructed by dr pangloss in three months time having
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  Speaker 2: lost all his money and being grown tired of my company,
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  Speaker 2: he sold me to a Jew, named Don Issachar, who
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  Speaker 2: traded to Holland and Portugal, and had a strong passion
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  Speaker 2: for women. This Jew was much attached to my person,
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  Speaker 2: but could not triumph over it. I resisted him better
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  Speaker 2: than the Bulgarian soldier. A modest woman may be ravished once,
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  Speaker 2: but her virtue is strengthened by it. in order to
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  Speaker 2: render me more tractable he brought me to this country
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  Speaker 2: house hitherto i had imagined that nothing could equal the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of thunderton trunk castle but i found i was
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  Speaker 2: mistaken the grand inquisitor seeing me one day at mass
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  Speaker 2: stared long at me and sent to tell me that
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  Speaker 2: he wished to speak on private matters i was conducted
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  Speaker 2: to his place where i acquainted him with the history
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  Speaker 2: of my family and he represented to me how much
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  Speaker 2: it was beneath my rank to belong to an Israelite.
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  Speaker 2: A proposal was then made to Don Issachar that he
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  Speaker 2: should resign me to my lord. Don Issachar, being the
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  Speaker 2: court banker and a man of credit, would hear nothing
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  Speaker 2: of it. The inquisitor threatened him with an auto de fe.
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  Speaker 2: At last my Jew... intimidated concluded a bargain by which
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  Speaker 2: the house and myself should belong to both in common
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  Speaker 2: the jew should have for himself monday wednesday and saturday
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  Speaker 2: and the inquisitor should have the rest of the week
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  Speaker 2: it is now six months since this agreement was made
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  Speaker 2: quarrels have not been wanting for they could not decide
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  Speaker 2: whether the night from saturday to sunday belonged to the
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  Speaker 2: old law or to the new For my part, I
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  Speaker 2: have so far held out against both, and I verily
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  Speaker 2: believe that this is the reason why I am still beloved.
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  Speaker 2: At length, to avert the scourge of earthquakes, and to
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  Speaker 2: intimidate Don Issachar, my lord inquisitor was pleased to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: an auto de fe. He did me the honor to
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  Speaker 2: invite me to this ceremony. I had a very good seat,
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  Speaker 2: and the ladies were served with refreshments between mass and
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  Speaker 2: and the execution. I was in truth seized with horror
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  Speaker 2: at the burning of those two Jews, and of the
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  Speaker 2: honest Biscayner who had married his godmother. But what was
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  Speaker 2: my surprise, my fright, my trouble when I saw in
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  Speaker 2: a San Benito and mitre a figure which resembled that
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  Speaker 2: of Pangloss? I rubbed my eyes, I looked at him attentively,
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  Speaker 2: I saw him hung, I fainted. Scarcely had I recovered
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  Speaker 2: my senses than I saw you, stripped, stark naked, and
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  Speaker 2: this was the height of my horror, consternation, grief, and despair.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you truthfully that your skin is yet whiter
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  Speaker 2: and of a more perfect color than that of my
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  Speaker 2: Bulgarian captain. This spectacle redoubled all the feelings which overwhelmed
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  Speaker 2: and devoured me. I screamed out, and would have said, Stop, barbarians!
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  Speaker 2: But my voice failed me, and my cries would have
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  Speaker 2: been useless after you had been severely whipped. How is
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  Speaker 2: it possible, said I, that the beloved Candide and the
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  Speaker 2: wise Pangloss should both be at Lisbon, the one to
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  Speaker 2: receive a hundred lashes, and the other to be hanged
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  Speaker 2: by the Grand Inquisitor, of whom I am the well-beloved?
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  Speaker 2: Pangloss most cruelly deceived me when he said that everything
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  Speaker 2: in the world is for the best. Agitated, lost, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: beside myself and sometimes ready to die of weakness, my
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  Speaker 2: mind was filled with the massacre of my father, mother,
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  Speaker 2: and brother, with the insolence of the ugly Bulgarian soldier,
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  Speaker 2: with the stab that he gave me, with my servitude
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  Speaker 2: under the Bulgarian captain, with my hideous Don Issachar, with
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  Speaker 2: my abominable inquisitor, with the execution of Dr. Pangloss, with
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  Speaker 2: the grand miserere to which they whipped you, and especially
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  Speaker 2: with the kiss I gave you behind the screen that
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  Speaker 2: day I had last seen you. I praised God for
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  Speaker 2: bringing you back to me after so many trials.' and
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  Speaker 2: I charged my old woman to take care of you
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  Speaker 2: and to conduct you hither as soon as possible. She
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  Speaker 2: has executed her commission perfectly well. I have tasted the
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  Speaker 2: inexpressible pleasure of seeing you again, of hearing you, of
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  Speaker 2: speaking with you. But you must be hungry. For myself,
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  Speaker 2: I am famished. Let us have supper.
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  Speaker 1: They both sat down to table. and when supper was
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  Speaker 1: over they placed themselves once more on the sofa, where
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  Speaker 1: they were when Signor Don Issachar arrived.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Jewish Sabbath, and Issachar had
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  Speaker 1: Come to enjoy his rites, and to explain his tender love.