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Candide — XXIX — HOW CANDIDE FOUND CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN AGAIN.

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Contents · 31 sections
  1. HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE, AND HOW HE WAS EXPELLED THENCE.4 min
  2. II — WHAT BECAME OF CANDIDE AMONG THE BULGARIANS.4 min
  3. III — HOW CANDIDE MADE HIS ESCAPE FROM THE BULGARIANS, AND WHAT AFTERWARDS BECAME OF HIM.4 min
  4. IV — HOW CANDIDE FOUND HIS OLD MASTER PANGLOSS, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.5 min
  5. V — TEMPEST, SHIPWRECK, EARTHQUAKE, AND WHAT BECAME OF DOCTOR PANGLOSS, CANDIDE, AND JAMES THE ANABAPTIST.4 min
  6. VI — HOW THE PORTUGUESE MADE A BEAUTIFUL AUTO-DA-FÉ, TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER EARTHQUAKES; AND HOW CANDIDE WAS PUBLICLY WHIPPED.2 min
  7. VII — HOW THE OLD WOMAN TOOK CARE OF CANDIDE, AND HOW HE FOUND THE OBJECT HE LOVED.4 min
  8. VIII — THE HISTORY OF CUNEGONDE.5 min
  9. IX — WHAT BECAME OF CUNEGONDE, CANDIDE, THE GRAND INQUISITOR, AND THE JEW.3 min
  10. X — IN WHAT DISTRESS CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, AND THE OLD WOMAN ARRIVED AT CADIZ; AND OF THEIR EMBARKATION.3 min
  11. XI — HISTORY OF THE OLD WOMAN.6 min
  12. XII — THE ADVENTURES OF THE OLD WOMAN CONTINUED.6 min
  13. XIII — HOW CANDIDE WAS FORCED AWAY FROM HIS FAIR CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN.4 min
  14. XIV — HOW CANDIDE AND CACAMBO WERE RECEIVED BY THE JESUITS OF PARAGUAY.6 min
  15. XV — HOW CANDIDE KILLED THE BROTHER OF HIS DEAR CUNEGONDE.4 min
  16. XVI — ADVENTURES OF THE TWO TRAVELLERS, WITH TWO GIRLS, TWO MONKEYS, AND THE SAVAGES CALLED OREILLONS.6 min
  17. XVII — ARRIVAL OF CANDIDE AND HIS VALET AT EL DORADO, AND WHAT THEY SAW THERE.6 min
  18. XVIII — WHAT THEY SAW IN THE COUNTRY OF EL DORADO.9 min
  19. XIX — WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN.8 min
  20. XX — WHAT HAPPENED AT SEA TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN.4 min
  21. XXI — CANDIDE AND MARTIN, REASONING, DRAW NEAR THE COAST OF FRANCE.3 min
  22. XXII — WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN.16 min
  23. XXIII — CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOUCHED UPON THE COAST OF ENGLAND, AND WHAT THEY SAW THERE.2 min
  24. XXIV — OF PAQUETTE AND FRIAR GIROFLÉE.8 min
  25. XXV — THE VISIT TO LORD POCOCURANTE, A NOBLE VENETIAN.9 min
  26. XXVI — OF A SUPPER WHICH CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOOK WITH SIX STRANGERS, AND WHO THEY WERE. [34]6 min
  27. XXVII — CANDIDE'S VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE.6 min
  28. XXVIII — WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, PANGLOSS, MARTIN, ETC.5 min
  29. XXIX — HOW CANDIDE FOUND CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN AGAIN.2 min
  30. XXX — THE CONCLUSION.8 min
  31. FOOTNOTES:7 min

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XXIX — HOW CANDIDE FOUND CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN AGAIN.

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While Candide, the Baron, Pangloss, Martin, and Cacambo were relating their several adventures, were reasoning on the contingent or non-contingent events of the universe, disputing on effects and causes, on moral and physical evil, on liberty and necessity, and on the consolations a slave may feel even on a Turkish galley, they arrived at the house of the Transylvanian prince on the banks of the Propontis. The first objects which met their sight were Cunegonde and the old woman hanging towels out to dry.

The Baron paled at this sight. The tender, loving Candide, seeing his beautiful Cunegonde embrowned, with blood-shot eyes, withered neck, wrinkled cheeks, and rough, red arms, recoiled three paces, seized with horror, and then advanced out of good manners. She embraced Candide and her brother; they embraced the old woman, and Candide ransomed them both.

There was a small farm in the neighbourhood which the old woman proposed to Candide to make a shift with till the company could be provided for in a better manner. Cunegonde did not know she had grown ugly, for nobody had told her of it; and she reminded Candide of his promise in so positive a tone that the good man durst not refuse her. He therefore intimated to the Baron that he intended marrying his sister.

"I will not suffer," said the Baron, "such meanness on her part, and such insolence on yours; I will never be reproached with this scandalous thing; my sister's children would never be able to enter the church in Germany. No; my sister shall only marry a baron of the empire."

Cunegonde flung herself at his feet, and bathed them with her tears; still he was inflexible.

"Thou foolish fellow," said Candide; "I have delivered thee out of the galleys, I have paid thy ransom, and thy sister's also; she was a scullion, and is very ugly, yet I am so condescending as to marry her; and dost thou pretend to oppose the match? I should kill thee again, were I only to consult my anger."

"Thou mayest kill me again," said the Baron, "but thou shalt not marry my sister, at least whilst I am living."

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  1. HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE, AND HOW HE WAS EXPELLED THENCE.4 min
  2. II — WHAT BECAME OF CANDIDE AMONG THE BULGARIANS.4 min
  3. III — HOW CANDIDE MADE HIS ESCAPE FROM THE BULGARIANS, AND WHAT AFTERWARDS BECAME OF HIM.4 min
  4. IV — HOW CANDIDE FOUND HIS OLD MASTER PANGLOSS, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.5 min
  5. V — TEMPEST, SHIPWRECK, EARTHQUAKE, AND WHAT BECAME OF DOCTOR PANGLOSS, CANDIDE, AND JAMES THE ANABAPTIST.4 min
  6. VI — HOW THE PORTUGUESE MADE A BEAUTIFUL AUTO-DA-FÉ, TO PREVENT ANY FURTHER EARTHQUAKES; AND HOW CANDIDE WAS PUBLICLY WHIPPED.2 min
  7. VII — HOW THE OLD WOMAN TOOK CARE OF CANDIDE, AND HOW HE FOUND THE OBJECT HE LOVED.4 min
  8. VIII — THE HISTORY OF CUNEGONDE.5 min
  9. IX — WHAT BECAME OF CUNEGONDE, CANDIDE, THE GRAND INQUISITOR, AND THE JEW.3 min
  10. X — IN WHAT DISTRESS CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, AND THE OLD WOMAN ARRIVED AT CADIZ; AND OF THEIR EMBARKATION.3 min
  11. XI — HISTORY OF THE OLD WOMAN.6 min
  12. XII — THE ADVENTURES OF THE OLD WOMAN CONTINUED.6 min
  13. XIII — HOW CANDIDE WAS FORCED AWAY FROM HIS FAIR CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN.4 min
  14. XIV — HOW CANDIDE AND CACAMBO WERE RECEIVED BY THE JESUITS OF PARAGUAY.6 min
  15. XV — HOW CANDIDE KILLED THE BROTHER OF HIS DEAR CUNEGONDE.4 min
  16. XVI — ADVENTURES OF THE TWO TRAVELLERS, WITH TWO GIRLS, TWO MONKEYS, AND THE SAVAGES CALLED OREILLONS.6 min
  17. XVII — ARRIVAL OF CANDIDE AND HIS VALET AT EL DORADO, AND WHAT THEY SAW THERE.6 min
  18. XVIII — WHAT THEY SAW IN THE COUNTRY OF EL DORADO.9 min
  19. XIX — WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN.8 min
  20. XX — WHAT HAPPENED AT SEA TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN.4 min
  21. XXI — CANDIDE AND MARTIN, REASONING, DRAW NEAR THE COAST OF FRANCE.3 min
  22. XXII — WHAT HAPPENED IN FRANCE TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN.16 min
  23. XXIII — CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOUCHED UPON THE COAST OF ENGLAND, AND WHAT THEY SAW THERE.2 min
  24. XXIV — OF PAQUETTE AND FRIAR GIROFLÉE.8 min
  25. XXV — THE VISIT TO LORD POCOCURANTE, A NOBLE VENETIAN.9 min
  26. XXVI — OF A SUPPER WHICH CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOOK WITH SIX STRANGERS, AND WHO THEY WERE. [34]6 min
  27. XXVII — CANDIDE'S VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE.6 min
  28. XXVIII — WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, PANGLOSS, MARTIN, ETC.5 min
  29. XXIX — HOW CANDIDE FOUND CUNEGONDE AND THE OLD WOMAN AGAIN.2 min
  30. XXX — THE CONCLUSION.8 min
  31. FOOTNOTES:7 min
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