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| f000001,18.200,47.600,"After the earthquake had destroyed threefourths of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter ruin than to give the people a beautiful autodafe; for it had been decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few people alive by a slow fire, and with great ceremony, is an infallible secret to hinder the earth from quaking." | |
| f000002,47.600,72.600,"In consequence hereof, they had seized on a Biscayner, convicted of having married his godmother, and on two Portuguese, for rejecting the bacon which larded a chicken they were eating; after dinner, they came and secured Dr. Pangloss, and his disciple Candide, the one for speaking his mind, the other for having listened with an air of approbation." | |
| f000003,72.600,80.080,"They were conducted to separate apartments, extremely cold, as they were never incommoded by the sun." | |
| f000004,80.080,87.600,"Eight days after they were dressed in sanbenitos and their heads ornamented with paper mitres." | |
| f000005,87.600,104.320,"The mitre and sanbenito belonging to Candide were painted with reversed flames and with devils that had neither tails nor claws; but Pangloss's devils had claws and tails and the flames were upright." | |
| f000006,104.320,111.560,"They marched in procession thus habited and heard a very pathetic sermon, followed by fine church music." | |
| f000007,111.560,124.440,"Candide was whipped in cadence while they were singing; the Biscayner, and the two men who had refused to eat bacon, were burnt; and Pangloss was hanged, though that was not the custom." | |
| f000008,124.440,128.200,"The same day the earth sustained a most violent concussion." | |
| f000009,128.200,144.240,"Candide, terrified, amazed, desperate, all bloody, all palpitating, said to himself: If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?" | |
| f000010,144.240,162.640,"Well, if I had been only whipped I could put up with it, for I experienced that among the Bulgarians; but oh, my dear Pangloss! thou greatest of philosophers, that I should have seen you hanged, without knowing for what!" | |
| f000011,162.640,171.600,"Oh, my dear Anabaptist, thou best of men, that thou should'st have been drowned in the very harbour!" | |
| f000012,171.600,181.120,"Oh, Miss Cunegonde, thou pearl of girls! that thou should'st have had thy belly ripped open!" | |
| f000013,181.120,197.760,"Thus he was musing, scarce able to stand, preached at, whipped, absolved, and blessed, when an old woman accosted him saying: My son, take courage and follow me." | |
| f000014,197.760,202.640,"End of chapter." |