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  Speaker 1: CHAPTER II. What became of Candide among the Bulgarians? Candide,
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  Speaker 1: driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without knowing where, weeping,
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  Speaker 1: raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often towards the
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  Speaker 1: most magnificent of castles, which imprisoned the purest of noble
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  Speaker 1: young ladies. He lay down to sleep without supper, in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of a field, between two furrows. The snow
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  Speaker 1: fell in large flakes. Next day, Candide, all benumbed, dragged
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  Speaker 1: himself toward the neighboring town, which was called Waldberghof Trappdickdorf.
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  Speaker 1: Having no money, dying of hunger and fatigue, he stopped
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  Speaker 1: sorrowfully at the door of an inn, two men dressed
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  Speaker 1: in blue observed him.' Comrade,'.
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  Speaker 2: Said one,' here is a well-built young fellow, and of
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  Speaker 2: proper height.
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  Speaker 1: They went up to Candide, and very civilly invited him
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  Speaker 1: to dinner.' Gentlemen,' replied Candide, with a most engaging modesty,'
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  Speaker 1: you do me a great honor, but I have not
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  Speaker 1: wherewithal to pay my share.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sir,' said one of the blues to him, people
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  Speaker 2: of your appearance and of your merit never pay anything
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  Speaker 2: are you not five feet five inches.
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  Speaker 1: High yes sir that is my height answered he making
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  Speaker 1: a low bow come sir seat yourself not only will
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  Speaker 1: we pay your reckoning but we will never suffer such
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  Speaker 1: a man as you to want money men are only
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  Speaker 1: born to assist one another You are right, said Candide.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I was always taught by Mr. Pangloss,
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  Speaker 1: and I see plainly that all is for the best.
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  Speaker 1: They begged of him to accept a few crowns. He
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  Speaker 1: took them, and wished to give them his note. They refused.
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  Speaker 1: They seated themselves at table. Love you not deeply? Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: answered he. i deeply love miss cunegonde no said one
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  Speaker 1: of the gentlemen we ask you if you do not
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  Speaker 1: deeply love the king of the bulgarians not at all
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  Speaker 1: said he for i have never seen him what he
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  Speaker 1: is the best of kings and we must drink to
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  Speaker 1: his health oh very willingly gentlemen and he drank. That
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  Speaker 1: is enough, they tell him. Now you are the help,
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  Speaker 1: the support, the defender, the hero of the Bulgarians. Your
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  Speaker 1: fortune is made, and your glory is assured. Instantly they
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  Speaker 1: fettered him and carried him away to the regiment. There
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  Speaker 1: he was made to wheel about to the right and
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  Speaker 1: to the left, to draw his rammer, to return his rammer,
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  Speaker 1: to present, to fire, to march, and they gave him
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  Speaker 1: thirty blows with a cudgel. The next day he did
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  Speaker 1: his exercise a little less badly, and he received but
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  Speaker 1: twenty blows. The day following they gave him only ten,
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  Speaker 1: and he was regarded by his comrades as a prodigy. Candide,
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  Speaker 1: all stupefied, could not yet very well realize how he
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  Speaker 1: was a hero. He resolved one fine day in spring
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  Speaker 1: to go for a walk, marching straight before him, believing
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  Speaker 1: that it was a privilege of the human as well
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  Speaker 1: as of the animal species to make use of their
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  Speaker 1: legs as they pleased. He had advanced two leagues when
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  Speaker 1: he was overtaken by four others, heroes of six feet,
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  Speaker 1: who bound him and carried him to a dungeon. He
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  Speaker 1: was asked, which he would like the best, to be
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  Speaker 1: whipped six and thirty times through all the regiment, or
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  Speaker 1: to receive at once twelve balls of lead in his brain.
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  Speaker 1: He vainly said that human will is free, and that
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  Speaker 1: he chose neither the one nor the other. He was
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  Speaker 1: forced to make a choice. He determined, in virtue of
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  Speaker 1: that gift of God called liberty, to run the gauntlet
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  Speaker 1: six and thirty times. he bore this twice. The regiment
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  Speaker 1: was composed of two thousand men, that composed for him
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  Speaker 1: four thousand strokes, which laid bare all his muscles and nerves,
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  Speaker 1: from the nape of his neck quite down to his rump.
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  Speaker 1: As they were going to proceed to a third whipping, Candide,
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  Speaker 1: able to bear no more, begged as a favour that
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  Speaker 1: they would be so good as to shoot him. He
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  Speaker 1: obtained this favor, they bandaged his eyes, and bade him
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  Speaker 1: kneel down. The king of the Bulgarians passed at this moment,
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  Speaker 1: and ascertained the nature of the crime. As he had
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  Speaker 1: great talent, he understood from all that he learnt of
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  Speaker 1: Candide that he was a young metaphysician, extremely ignorant of
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  Speaker 1: the things of this world, and he accorded him his
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  Speaker 1: pardon with a clemency which will bring him praise in
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  Speaker 1: all the journals and throughout all ages. An able surgeon
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  Speaker 1: cured Candide in three weeks by means of emollients taught
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  Speaker 1: by Dioscorides. He had already a little skin, and was
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  Speaker 1: able to march when the king of the Bulgarians gave
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  Speaker 1: battle to the king of the Abades.