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Candide Chapter 3 - How Candide Made His Escape From the Bulgarians, and What Afterwards Became of Him · The Voltaire Library

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  Speaker 1: How Candide Made His Escape from the Bulgarians, and What
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  Speaker 1: Afterwards Became of Him There was never anything so gallant,
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  Speaker 1: so spruce, so brilliant, and so well disposed as the
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  Speaker 1: two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and cannon, made music
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  Speaker 1: such as hell itself had never heard. The cannons first
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  Speaker 1: of all laid flat about six thousand men on each side.
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  Speaker 1: The muskets swept away from this best of worlds nine
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  Speaker 1: or ten thousand ruffians who infested its surface. The bayonet
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  Speaker 1: was also a sufficient reason for the death of several thousands.
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  Speaker 1: The whole might amount to thirty thousand souls— Candide, who
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  Speaker 1: trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he
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  Speaker 1: could during this heroic butchery. At length, while the two
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  Speaker 1: kings were causing te deum to be sung each in
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  Speaker 1: his own camp, Candide resolved to go and reason elsewhere
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  Speaker 1: on effects and causes. He passed over heaps of dead
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  Speaker 1: and dying, and first reached a neighboring village. It was
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  Speaker 1: in cinders, It was in Abare village which the Bulgarians
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  Speaker 1: had burnt according to the laws of war. Here, old
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  Speaker 1: men covered with wounds beheld their wives hugging their children
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  Speaker 1: to their bloody breasts, massacred before their faces. There, their
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  Speaker 1: daughters disemboweled and breathing their last after having satisfied the
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  Speaker 1: natural wants of Bulgarian heroes, while others, half burnt in
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  Speaker 1: the flames, begged to be dispatched. The earth was strewed
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  Speaker 1: with brains, arms, and legs. Candide fled quickly to another village.
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  Speaker 1: It belonged to the Bulgarians, and the Abarian heroes had
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  Speaker 1: treated it in the same way. Candide, walking always over
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  Speaker 1: palpitating limbs or across ruins, arrived at last beyond the
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  Speaker 1: seat of war with a few provisions in his knapsack,
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  Speaker 1: and Miss Cunegonda always in his heart. His provisions failed
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  Speaker 1: him when he arrived in Holland, but having heard that
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  Speaker 1: everybody was rich in that country, and that they were Christians,
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  Speaker 1: he did not doubt but he should meet with the
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  Speaker 1: same treatment from them as he had met with in
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  Speaker 1: the Baron's castle, before Miss Cunegonda's bright eyes were the
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  Speaker 1: cause of his expulsion thence. He asked alms of several
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  Speaker 1: grave-looking people, who all answered him, that if he continued
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  Speaker 1: to follow this trade they would confine him to the
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  Speaker 1: house of correction, where he should be taught to get
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  Speaker 1: a living. The next he addressed was a man who
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  Speaker 1: had been haranguing a large assembly for a whole hour
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  Speaker 1: on the subject of charity, but the orator, looking askew, said,'
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 2: Are you for the good cause?
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  Speaker 1: there can be no effect without a cause modestly answered candide.
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  Speaker 2: The whole is necessarily concatenated and arranged for the best
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  Speaker 2: it was necessary for me to have been banished from
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  Speaker 2: the presence of miss cunegonde to have afterwards run the
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  Speaker 2: gauntlet and now it is necessary i should beg my
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  Speaker 2: bread until i learn to earn it.
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  Speaker 1: All this cannot be otherwise my friend said the orator
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  Speaker 1: to him. Do you believe the Pope to be Antichrist?
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  Speaker 1: I have not heard it, answered Candide.
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  Speaker 2: But whether he be or whether he be not, I
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  Speaker 2: want bread.
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  Speaker 1: Thou dost not deserve to eat, said the other. Be gone, rogue,
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  Speaker 1: be gone, wretch, do not come near me again. The
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  Speaker 1: orator's wife, putting her head out of the window and
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  Speaker 1: spying a man that doubted whether the Pope was Antichrist,
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  Speaker 1: poured over him a full, oh heavens, to what excess
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  Speaker 1: does religious zeal carry the ladies? A man who had
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  Speaker 1: never been christened, a good Anabaptist named James, beheld the
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  Speaker 1: cruel and ignominious treatment shown to one of his brethren.
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  Speaker 1: An unfettered biped with a rational soul, he took him home,
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  Speaker 1: cleaned him gave him bread and beer presented him with
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  Speaker 1: two florins and even wished to teach him the manufacture
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  Speaker 1: of persian stuffs which they make in holland candide almost
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  Speaker 1: prostrating himself before him cried master pangloss has.
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  Speaker 2: Well said that all is for the best in this
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  Speaker 2: world for i am infinitely more touched by your extreme
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  Speaker 2: generosity than with the inhumanity of that gentleman in the
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  Speaker 2: black coat and his lady.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, as he took a walk, he met
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  Speaker 1: a beggar all covered with scabs, his eyes diseased, the
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  Speaker 1: end of his nose eaten away, his mouth distorted, his
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  Speaker 1: teeth black, choking in his throat, tormented with a violent cough,
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  Speaker 1: and spitting out a tooth at each effort. Savannah, Georgia