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f000001,14.760,26.440,"The faithful Cacambo had already prevailed upon the Turkish skipper, who was to conduct the Sultan Achmet to Constantinople, to receive Candide and Martin on his ship." |
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f000002,26.440,32.080,"They both embarked after having made their obeisance to his miserable Highness." |
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f000003,32.080,42.480,"You see, said Candide to Martin on the way, we supped with six dethroned kings, and of those six there was one to whom I gave charity." |
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f000004,42.480,46.800,"Perhaps there are many other princes yet more unfortunate." |
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f000005,46.800,54.000,"For my part, I have only lost a hundred sheep; and now I am flying into Cunegonde's arms." |
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f000006,54.000,60.680,"My dear Martin, yet once more Pangloss was right: all is for the best." |
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f000007,60.680,64.520,"I wish it, answered Martin." |
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f000008,64.520,71.840,"But, said Candide, it was a very strange adventure we met with at Venice." |
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f000009,71.840,79.800,"It has never before been seen or heard that six dethroned kings have supped together at a public inn." |
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f000010,79.800,87.600,"It is not more extraordinary, said Martin, than most of the things that have happened to us." |
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f000011,87.600,100.400,"It is a very common thing for kings to be dethroned; and as for the honour we have had of supping in their company, it is a trifle not worth our attention." |
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f000012,100.400,109.680,"No sooner had Candide got on board the vessel than he flew to his old valet and friend Cacambo, and tenderly embraced him." |
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f000013,109.680,114.360,"Well, said he, what news of Cunegonde?" |
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f000014,114.360,116.960,"Is she still a prodigy of beauty?" |
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f000015,116.960,118.880,"Does she love me still?" |
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f000016,118.880,120.080,"How is she?" |
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f000017,120.080,125.040,"Thou hast doubtless bought her a palace at Constantinople?" |
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f000018,125.040,148.920,"My dear master, answered Cacambo, Cunegonde washes dishes on the banks of the Propontis, in the service of a prince, who has very few dishes to wash; she is a slave in the family of an ancient sovereign named Ragotsky, to whom the Grand Turk allows three crowns a day in his exile." |
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f000019,148.920,157.920,"But what is worse still is, that she has lost her beauty and has become horribly ugly." |
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f000020,157.920,167.680,"Well, handsome or ugly, replied Candide, I am a man of honour, and it is my duty to love her still." |
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f000021,167.680,175.720,"But how came she to be reduced to so abject a state with the five or six millions that you took to her?" |
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f000022,175.720,193.720,"Ah! said Cacambo, was I not to give two millions to Senor Don Fernando d'Ibaraa, y Figueora, y Mascarenes, y Lampourdos, y Souza, Governor of Buenos Ayres, for permitting Miss Cunegonde to come away?" |
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f000023,193.720,198.240,"And did not a corsair bravely rob us of all the rest?" |
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f000024,198.240,209.600,"Did not this corsair carry us to Cape Matapan, to Milo, to Nicaria, to Samos, to Petra, to the Dardanelles, to Marmora, to Scutari?" |
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f000025,209.600,219.560,"Cunegonde and the old woman serve the prince I now mentioned to you, and I am slave to the dethroned Sultan." |
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f000026,219.560,224.480,"What a series of shocking calamities! cried Candide." |
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f000027,224.480,230.920,"But after all, I have some diamonds left; and I may easily pay Cunegonde's ransom." |
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f000028,230.920,236.040,"Yet it is a pity that she is grown so ugly." |
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f000029,236.040,250.800,"Then, turning towards Martin: Who do you think, said he, is most to be pitiedthe Sultan Achmet, the Emperor Ivan, King Charles Edward, or I?" |
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f000030,250.800,254.200,"How should I know! answered Martin." |
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f000031,254.200,258.800,"I must see into your hearts to be able to tell." |
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f000032,258.800,265.640,"Ah! said Candide, if Pangloss were here, he could tell." |
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f000033,265.640,278.600,"I know not, said Martin, in what sort of scales your Pangloss would weigh the misfortunes of mankind and set a just estimate on their sorrows." |
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f000034,278.600,295.880,"All that I can presume to say is, that there are millions of people upon earth who have a hundred times more to complain of than King Charles Edward, the Emperor Ivan, or the Sultan Achmet." |
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f000035,295.880,300.600,"That may well be, said Candide." |
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f000036,300.600,308.120,"In a few days they reached the Bosphorus, and Candide began by paying a very high ransom for Cacambo." |
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f000037,308.120,320.160,"Then without losing time, he and his companions went on board a galley, in order to search on the banks of the Propontis for his Cunegonde, however ugly she might have become." |
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f000038,320.160,330.840,"Among the crew there were two slaves who rowed very badly, and to whose bare shoulders the Levantine captain would now and then apply blows from a bull's pizzle." |
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f000039,330.840,341.120,"Candide, from a natural impulse, looked at these two slaves more attentively than at the other oarsmen, and approached them with pity." |
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f000040,341.120,353.960,"Their features though greatly disfigured, had a slight resemblance to those of Pangloss and the unhappy Jesuit and Westphalian Baron, brother to Miss Cunegonde." |
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f000041,353.960,356.000,"This moved and saddened him." |
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f000042,356.000,360.160,"He looked at them still more attentively." |
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f000043,360.160,373.320,"Indeed, said he to Cacambo, if I had not seen Master Pangloss hanged, and if I had not had the misfortune to kill the Baron, I should think it was they that were rowing." |
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f000044,373.320,383.640,"At the names of the Baron and of Pangloss, the two galleyslaves uttered a loud cry, held fast by the seat, and let drop their oars." |
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f000045,383.640,388.520,"The captain ran up to them and redoubled his blows with the bull's pizzle." |
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f000046,388.520,392.280,"stop! sir, cried Candide." |
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f000047,392.280,396.320,"I will give you what money you please." |
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f000048,396.320,401.040,"it is Candide! said one of the slaves." |
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f000049,401.040,403.680,"it is Candide! said the other." |
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f000050,403.680,412.160,"cried Candide; am I awake? or am I on board a galley?" |
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f000051,412.160,414.440,"Is this the Baron whom I killed?" |
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f000052,414.440,420.240,"Is this Master Pangloss whom I saw hanged?" |
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f000053,420.240,425.440,"it is we! answered they." |
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f000054,425.440,430.440,"is this the great philosopher? said Martin." |
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f000055,430.440,447.200,"Ah! captain, said Candide, what ransom will you take for Monsieur de ThundertenTronckh, one of the first barons of the empire, and for Monsieur Pangloss, the profoundest metaphysician in Germany?" |
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f000056,447.200,464.480,"Dog of a Christian, answered the Levantine captain, since these two dogs of Christian slaves are barons and metaphysicians, which I doubt not are high dignities in their country, you shall give me fifty thousand sequins." |
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f000057,464.480,465.960,"You shall have them, sir." |
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f000058,465.960,470.440,"Carry me back at once to Constantinople, and you shall receive the money directly." |
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f000059,470.440,471.400,"End of chapter." |
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f000060,471.400,475.960,"But no; carry me first to Miss Cunegonde." |
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f000061,475.960,486.560,"Upon the first proposal made by Candide, however, the Levantine captain had already tacked about, and made the crew ply their oars quicker than a bird cleaves the air." |
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f000062,486.560,491.960,"Candide embraced the Baron and Pangloss a hundred times." |
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f000063,491.960,496.720,"And how happened it, my dear Baron, that I did not kill you?" |
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f000064,496.720,503.120,"And, my dear Pangloss, how came you to life again after being hanged?" |
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f000065,503.120,507.520,"And why are you both in a Turkish galley?" |
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f000066,507.520,512.200,"And it is true that my dear sister is in this country? said the Baron." |
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f000067,512.200,515.960,"Yes, answered Cacambo." |
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f000068,515.960,522.160,"Then I behold, once more, my dear Candide, cried Pangloss." |
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f000069,522.160,529.800,"Candide presented Martin and Cacambo to them; they embraced each other, and all spoke at once." |
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f000070,529.800,533.320,"The galley flew; they were already in the port." |
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f000071,533.320,546.000,"Instantly Candide sent for a Jew, to whom he sold for fifty thousand sequins a diamond worth a hundred thousand, though the fellow swore to him by Abraham that he could give him no more." |
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f000072,546.000,549.880,"He immediately paid the ransom for the Baron and Pangloss." |
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f000073,549.880,561.080,"The latter threw himself at the feet of his deliverer, and bathed them with his tears; the former thanked him with a nod, and promised to return him the money on the first opportunity." |
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f000074,561.080,569.000,"But is it indeed possible that my sister can be in Turkey? said he." |
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f000075,569.000,578.640,"Nothing is more possible, said Cacambo, since she scours the dishes in the service of a Transylvanian prince." |
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f000076,578.640,596.600,"Candide sent directly for two Jews and sold them some more diamonds, and then they all set out together in another galley to deliver Cunegonde from slavery." |