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Candide Chapter 4 - How Candide Found His Old Master Pangloss, and What Happened to Them · The Voltaire Library

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  Speaker 1: How Candide Found His Old Master Pangloss, and What Happened
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  Speaker 1: to Them Candide, yet more moved with compassion than with horror,
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  Speaker 1: gave to this shocking beggar the two florins which she
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  Speaker 1: had received from the honest Anabaptist James. The spectre looked
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  Speaker 1: at him very earnestly. dropped a few tears, and fell
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  Speaker 1: upon his neck. Candide recoiled in disgust. Alas, said one
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  Speaker 1: wretch to the other, do you no longer know your
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  Speaker 1: dear Pangloss?
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  Speaker 2: What do I hear? You, my dear master, you, in
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  Speaker 2: this terrible plight? What misfortune has happened to you? Why
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  Speaker 2: are you no longer in the most magnificent of castles?
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  Speaker 2: What has happened to Miss Cunegonda, the pearl of girls
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  Speaker 2: and nature's masterpiece? I am so weak.
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  Speaker 1: That I cannot stand, said Pangloss, upon which Candide carried
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  Speaker 1: him to the Anabaptist's stable and gave him a crust
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  Speaker 1: of bread, as soon as Pangloss had refreshed himself a little. Well,
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  Speaker 1: said Candide, Cunegonda— she is dead replied the other candide
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  Speaker 1: fainted at this word his friend recalled his senses with
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  Speaker 1: a little bad vinegar which he found by chance in
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  Speaker 1: the stable candide reopened his eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Cunegonde is dead ah best of worlds where art thou
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  Speaker 2: but of what illness did she die was it not
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  Speaker 2: for grief upon seeing her father kick me out of
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  Speaker 2: his magnificent castle no said pangloss she was ripped open
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  Speaker 2: by the bulgarian soldiers after having been violated by many
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  Speaker 2: they broke the baron's head for attempting to defend her
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  Speaker 2: my lady her mother was cut in pieces my poor
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  Speaker 2: pupil was served just in the same manner as his
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  Speaker 2: sister and as for the castle they have not left
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  Speaker 2: one stone upon another not a barn nor a sheep
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  Speaker 2: nor a duck nor a tree but we have had
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  Speaker 2: our revenge for the abares have done the very same
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  Speaker 2: thing to a neighbouring barony which belonged to a Bulgarian lord.
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  Speaker 1: At this discourse Candide fainted again, but coming to himself
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  Speaker 1: and having said all that it became him to say,
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  Speaker 1: inquired into the cause and effect, as well as into
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  Speaker 1: the sufficient reason that had reduced Pangloss to so miserable
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  Speaker 1: a plight.
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  Speaker 3: Alas,' said the other,' it was love.
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  Speaker 2: Love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of
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  Speaker 2: the universe, the soul of all sensible beings. Love, tender love. Alas,
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  Speaker 2: said Candide, I know this love, that sovereign of hearts,
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  Speaker 2: that soul of our souls. Yet it never cost me
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  Speaker 2: more than a kiss and twenty kicks on the backside.
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  Speaker 2: how could this beautiful cause produce in you an effect so.
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  Speaker 1: Abominable pangloss made answer in these terms oh my.
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  Speaker 2: Dear candide you remember paquette that pretty wench who waited
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  Speaker 2: on our noble baroness In her arms I tasted the
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  Speaker 2: delights of paradise, which produced in me those hell-torments with
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  Speaker 2: which you see me devoured. She was infected with them.
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  Speaker 2: She is, perhaps, dead of them. This present paquette received
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  Speaker 2: of a learned grey friar, who had traced it to
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  Speaker 2: its source. He had had it of an old countess,
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  Speaker 2: who had received it from a cavalry captain, who owed
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  Speaker 2: it to a marchioness, who took it from a page,
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  Speaker 2: who had received it from a Jesuit, who when a
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  Speaker 2: novice had it in a direct line from one of
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  Speaker 2: the companions of Christopher Columbus. For my part, I shall
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  Speaker 2: give it to nobody.
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  Speaker 3: I am dying. oh pangloss cried cantide what a strange
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  Speaker 3: genealogy is not the devil the original stock of it
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  Speaker 3: not at all replied this great man.
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  Speaker 2: It was a thing unavoidable a necessary ingredient in the
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  Speaker 2: best of worlds for if columbus had not in an
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  Speaker 2: island of america caught this disease which contaminates the source
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  Speaker 2: of life frequently even hinders generation and which is evidently
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  Speaker 2: opposed to the great end of nature we should have
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  Speaker 2: neither chocolate nor cochineal we are also to observe that
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  Speaker 2: upon our continent this distemper is like religious controversy confined
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  Speaker 2: to a particular spot the turks the indians the persians
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  Speaker 2: the chinese the siamese the japanese know nothing of it
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  Speaker 2: but there is a sufficient reason for believing that they
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  Speaker 2: will know it in their turn in a few centuries
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  Speaker 2: in the meantime it has made marvelous progress among us
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  Speaker 2: especially in those great armies composed of honest well-disciplined hirelings
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  Speaker 2: who decide the destiny of states for we may safely
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  Speaker 2: affirm that when an army of thirty thousand men fights
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  Speaker 2: another of an equal number there are about twenty thousand
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  Speaker 2: of them p x d on each side well This
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  Speaker 2: is wonderful, said Candide, but you must get cured. Alas,
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  Speaker 2: how can I?
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  Speaker 3: Said Pangloss.
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  Speaker 2: I have not a farthing, my friend, and all over
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  Speaker 2: the globe there is no letting of blood or taking
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  Speaker 2: a glister without paying or somebody paying for you.
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  Speaker 1: These last words determined Candide. he went and flung himself
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  Speaker 1: at the feet of the charitable Anabaptist James, and gave
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  Speaker 1: him so touching a picture of the state to which
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  Speaker 1: his friend was reduced, that the good man did not
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  Speaker 1: scruple to take Dr. Pangloss into his house, and had
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  Speaker 1: him cured at his expense. In the cure, Pangloss lost
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  Speaker 1: only an eye and an ear, he wrote well and
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  Speaker 1: knew arithmetic perfectly, The Anabaptist James made him his bookkeeper.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of two months, being obliged to go
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  Speaker 1: to Lisbon about some mercantile affairs, he took the two
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  Speaker 1: philosophers with him in his ship. Pangloss explained to him
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  Speaker 1: how everything was so constituted that it could not be better.
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  Speaker 1: James was not of this opinion.' It is more likely,'
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  Speaker 1: said he, 'mankind have a little corrupted nature,' for they
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  Speaker 1: were not born wolves, and they have become wolves. God
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  Speaker 1: has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets,
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  Speaker 1: and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy
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  Speaker 1: one another. Into this account I might throw not only bankrupts,
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  Speaker 1: but justice which seizes on the effects of bankrupts to
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  Speaker 1: cheat the creditors.
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  Speaker 2: All this was indispensable,' replied the one-eyed doctor, for private
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  Speaker 2: misfortunes make the general good, so that the more private
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  Speaker 2: misfortunes there are, the greater is the general good.
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  Speaker 1: While he reasoned, the sky darkened, the winds blew from
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  Speaker 1: the four quarters, and the ship was assailed by a
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  Speaker 1: most terrible tempest within sight of the port of Lisbon.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter 4 Recording by John Van Stan, Savannah, Georgia.