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f000001,20.080,26.480,"Candide and his valet had got beyond the barrier, before it was known in the camp that the German Jesuit was dead." |
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f000002,26.480,35.640,"The wary Cacambo had taken care to fill his wallet with bread, chocolate, bacon, fruit, and a few bottles of wine." |
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f000003,35.640,43.400,"With their Andalusian horses they penetrated into an unknown country, where they perceived no beaten track." |
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f000004,43.400,49.680,"At length they came to a beautiful meadow intersected with purling rills." |
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f000005,49.680,53.160,"Here our two adventurers fed their horses." |
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f000006,53.160,58.920,"Cacambo proposed to his master to take some food, and he set him an example." |
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f000007,58.920,71.400,"How can you ask me to eat ham, said Candide, after killing the Baron's son, and being doomed never more to see the beautiful Cunegonde?" |
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f000008,71.400,79.320,"What will it avail me to spin out my wretched days and drag them far from her in remorse and despair?" |
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f000009,79.320,84.000,"And what will the Journal of Trevoux say?" |
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f000010,84.000,88.600,"While he was thus lamenting his fate, he went on eating." |
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f000011,88.600,90.080,"The sun went down." |
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f000012,90.080,94.960,"The two wanderers heard some little cries which seemed to be uttered by women." |
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f000013,94.960,107.560,"They did not know whether they were cries of pain or joy; but they started up precipitately with that inquietude and alarm which every little thing inspires in an unknown country." |
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f000014,107.560,117.520,"The noise was made by two naked girls, who tripped along the mead, while two monkeys were pursuing them and biting their buttocks." |
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f000015,117.520,130.280,"Candide was moved with pity; he had learned to fire a gun in the Bulgarian service, and he was so clever at it, that he could hit a filbert in a hedge without touching a leaf of the tree." |
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f000016,130.280,136.640,"He took up his doublebarrelled Spanish fusil, let it off, and killed the two monkeys." |
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f000017,136.640,138.320,"God be praised!" |
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f000018,138.320,144.920,"My dear Cacambo, I have rescued those two poor creatures from a most perilous situation." |
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f000019,144.920,153.480,"If I have committed a sin in killing an Inquisitor and a Jesuit, I have made ample amends by saving the lives of these girls." |
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f000020,153.480,162.000,"Perhaps they are young ladies of family; and this adventure may procure us great advantages in this country." |
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f000021,162.000,176.960,"He was continuing, but stopped short when he saw the two girls tenderly embracing the monkeys, bathing their bodies in tears, and rending the air with the most dismal lamentations." |
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f000022,176.960,193.840,"Little did I expect to see such goodnature, said he at length to Cacambo; who made answer: Master, you have done a fine thing now; you have slain the sweethearts of those two young ladies." |
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f000023,193.840,195.560,"The sweethearts!" |
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f000024,195.560,197.120,"Is it possible?" |
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f000025,197.120,201.360,"You are jesting, Cacambo, I can never believe it!" |
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f000026,201.360,207.160,"Dear master, replied Cacambo; you are surprised at everything." |
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f000027,207.160,222.080,"Why should you think it so strange that in some countries there are monkeys which insinuate themselves into the good graces of the ladies; they are a fourth part human, as I am a fourth part Spaniard." |
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f000028,222.080,246.520,"Alas! replied Candide, I remember to have heard Master Pangloss say, that formerly such accidents used to happen; that these mixtures were productive of Centaurs, Fauns, and Satyrs; and that many of the ancients had seen such monsters, but I looked upon the whole as fabulous." |
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f000029,246.520,265.560,"You ought now to be convinced, said Cacambo, that it is the truth, and you see what use is made of those creatures, by persons that have not had a proper education; all I fear is that those ladies will play us some ugly trick." |
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f000030,265.560,271.480,"These sound reflections induced Candide to leave the meadow and to plunge into a wood." |
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f000031,271.480,281.800,"He supped there with Cacambo; and after cursing the Portuguese inquisitor, the Governor of Buenos Ayres, and the Baron, they fell asleep on moss." |
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f000032,281.800,295.080,"On awaking they felt that they could not move; for during the night the Oreillons, who inhabited that country, and to whom the ladies had denounced them, had bound them with cords made of the bark of trees." |
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f000033,295.080,308.240,"They were encompassed by fifty naked Oreillons, armed with bows and arrows, with clubs and flint hatchets." |
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f000034,308.240,318.760,"a Jesuit! we shall be revenged, we shall have excellent cheer, let us eat the Jesuit, let us eat him up!" |
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f000035,318.760,326.760,"I told you, my dear master, cried Cacambo sadly, that those two girls would play us some ugly trick." |
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f000036,326.760,335.960,"Candide seeing the cauldron and the spits, cried: We are certainly going to be either roasted or boiled." |
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f000037,335.960,342.040,"Ah! what would Master Pangloss say, were he to see how pure nature is formed?" |
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f000038,342.040,352.360,"Everything is right, may be, but I declare it is very hard to have lost Miss Cunegonde and to be put upon a spit by Oreillons." |
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f000039,352.360,356.200,"Cacambo never lost his head." |
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f000040,356.200,367.600,"Do not despair, said he to the disconsolate Candide, I understand a little of the jargon of these people, I will speak to them." |
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f000041,367.600,378.720,"Be sure, said Candide, to represent to them how frightfully inhuman it is to cook men, and how very unChristian." |
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f000042,378.720,385.920,"Gentlemen, said Cacambo, you reckon you are today going to feast upon a Jesuit." |
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f000043,385.920,392.400,"It is all very well, nothing is more unjust than thus to treat your enemies." |
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f000044,392.400,400.960,"Indeed, the law of nature teaches us to kill our neighbour, and such is the practice all over the world." |
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f000045,400.960,407.440,"If we do not accustom ourselves to eating them, it is because we have better fare." |
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f000046,407.440,419.880,"But you have not the same resources as we; certainly it is much better to devour your enemies than to resign to the crows and rooks the fruits of your victory." |
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f000047,419.880,426.080,"But, gentlemen, surely you would not choose to eat your friends." |
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f000048,426.080,432.960,"You believe that you are going to spit a Jesuit, and he is your defender." |
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f000049,432.960,437.600,"It is the enemy of your enemies that you are going to roast." |
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f000050,437.600,454.880,"As for myself, I was born in your country; this gentleman is my master, and, far from being a Jesuit, he has just killed one, whose spoils he wears; and thence comes your mistake." |
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f000051,454.880,469.960,"To convince you of the truth of what I say, take his habit and carry it to the first barrier of the Jesuit kingdom, and inform yourselves whether my master did not kill a Jesuit officer." |
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f000052,469.960,476.080,"It will not take you long, and you can always eat us if you find that I have lied to you." |
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f000053,476.080,479.120,"But I have told you the truth." |
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f000054,479.120,488.400,"You are too well acquainted with the principles of public law, humanity, and justice not to pardon us." |
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f000055,488.400,492.040,"The Oreillons found this speech very reasonable." |
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f000056,492.040,505.480,"They deputed two of their principal people with all expedition to inquire into the truth of the matter; these executed their commission like men of sense, and soon returned with good news." |
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f000057,505.480,522.880,"The Oreillons untied their prisoners, showed them all sorts of civilities, offered them girls, gave them refreshment, and reconducted them to the confines of their territories, proclaiming with great joy: He is no Jesuit!" |
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f000058,522.880,524.440,"He is no Jesuit!" |
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f000059,524.440,532.560,"Candide could not help being surprised at the cause of his deliverance." |
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f000060,532.560,536.360,"said he; what men! what manners!" |
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f000061,536.360,544.400,"If I had not been so lucky as to run Miss Cunegonde's brother through the body, I should have been devoured without redemption." |
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f000062,544.400,558.960,"But, after all, pure nature is good, since these people, instead of feasting upon my flesh, have shown me a thousand civilities, when then I was not a Jesuit." |
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f000063,558.960,560.440,"End of chapter." |