Subject for November, 2016
Chapter 18 – What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado
Subject: Candide
Cacambo vented all his curiosity upon his landlord by a thousand different questions; the honest man answered him thus, “I am very ignorant, sir, but I am contented with ...
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Chapter 17 – Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado-What They Saw There
Subject: Candide
When to the frontiers of the Oreillons, said Cacambo to Candide, “You see, this hemisphere is not better than the other; now take my advice and let us return to Europe by...
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Chapter 16 – What Happened to Our Two Travelers with Two Girls, Two Monkeys, and the Savages, Called Oreillons
Subject: Candide
Candide and his valet had already passed the frontiers before it was known that the German Jesuit was dead. The wary Cacambo had taken care to fill his wallet with bread, choco...
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Chapter 15 – How Candide Killed the Brother of His Dear Cunegund
Subject: Candide
Never while I live shall I lose the remembrance of that horrible day on which I saw my father and mother barbarously butchered before my eyes, and my sister ravished. When the ...
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Chapter 14 – The Reception Candide and Cacambo Met with among the Jesuits in Paraguay
Subject: Candide
Candide had brought with him from Cadiz such a footman as one often meets with on the coasts of Spain and in the colonies. He was the fourth part of a Spaniard, of a mongrel br...
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Chapter 13 – How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
Subject: Candide
The fair Cunegund, being thus made acquainted with the history of the old woman’s life and adventures, paid her all the respect and civility due to a person of her rank a...
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Chapter 12 – The Adventures of the Old Woman Continued
Subject: Candide
Astonished and delighted to hear my native language, and no less surprised at the young man’s words, I told him that there were far greater misfortunes in the world than ...
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Chapter 11 – The History of the Old Woman
Subject: Candide
I have not always been blear-eyed. My nose did not always touch my chin; nor was I always a servant. You must know that I am the daughter of Pope Urban X, and of the Princess o...
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Chapter 10 – In What Distress Candide, Cunegund, and the Old Woman Arrive at Cadiz, and Of Their Embarkation
Subject: Candide
Who could it be that has robbed me of my moidores and jewels?” exclaimed Miss Cunegund, all bathed in tears. “How shall we live? What shall we do? Where shall I fin...
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Chapter 9 – What Happened to Cunegund, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew
Subject: Candide
This same Issachar was the most choleric little Hebrew that had ever been in Israel since the captivity of Babylon. “What,” said he, “thou Galilean slut? The ...
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