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OF FRANCE.
CHAPTER XXII. WHAT HAPPENED TO CANDIDE AND MARTIN IN FRANCE.
CHAPTER XXIII. CANDIDE AND MARTIN TOUCH UPON THE ENGLISH COAST — WHAT THEY SEE THERE.
CHAPTER XXIV. OF PACQUETTE AND FRIAR GIROFLÉE.
CHAPTER XXV. CANDIDE AND MARTIN PAY A VISIT TO SEIGNOR POCOCURANTÉ, A NOBLE VENETIAN.
CHAPTER XXVI. CANDIDE AND MARTIN SUP WITH SIX SHARPERS — WHO THEY WERE.
CHAPTER XXVII. CANDIDE’S VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. WHAT BEFELL CANDIDE, CUNEGUND, PANGLOSS, MARTIN, ETC.
CHAPTER XXIX. IN WHAT MANNER CANDIDE FOUND MISS CUNEGUND AND THE OLD WOMAN AGAIN.
CHAPTER I. HOW CANDIDE QUITTED HIS COMPANIONS, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM.
CHAPTER II. WHAT BEFELL CANDIDE IN THIS HOUSE — HOW HE GOT OUT OF IT.
CHAPTER III. CANDIDE’S RECEPTION AT COURT AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
CHAPTER IV. FRESH FAVORS CONFERRED ON CANDIDE; HIS GREAT ADVANCEMENT.
CHAPTER V. HOW CANDIDE BECAME A VERY GREAT MAN, AND YET WAS NOT CONTENTED.
CHAPTER VI. THE PLEASURES OF CANDIDE.
CHAPTER VII. THE HISTORY OF ZIRZA.
CHAPTER VIII. CANDIDE’S DISGUSTS — AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.
CHAPTER IX. CANDIDE’S DISGRACES, TRAVELS, AND ADVENTURES.
CHAPTER X. CANDIDE AND PANGLOSS ARRIVE AT THE PROPONTIS — WHAT THEY SAW THERE — WHAT BECAME OF THEM.
CHAPTER XI. CANDIDE CONTINUES HIS TRAVELS.
CHAPTER XII. CANDIDE STILL CONTINUES HIS TRAVELS — NEW ADVENTURES.
CHAPTER XIII. THE HISTORY OF ZENOIDA — HOW CANDIDE FELL IN LOVE WITH HER.
CHAPTER XIV. CONTINUATION OF THE LOVES OF CANDIDE.
CHAPTER XV. THE ARRIVAL OF WOLHALL — A JOURNEY TO COPENHAGEN.
CHAPTER XVI. HOW CANDIDE FOUND HIS WIFE AGAIN AND LOST HIS MISTRESS.
CHAPTER XVIII. CANDIDE AND CACAMBO GO INTO A HOSPITAL — WHOM THEY MEET THERE.
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
HOW CANDIDE WAS BROUGHT UP IN A MAGNIFICENT CASTLE AND HOW HE WAS DRIVEN THENCE.
In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition. His face was the true index of his mind. He had a solid judgment joined to the most unaffected simplicity; and hence, I presume, he had his name of Candide. The old servants of the house suspected him to have been the son of the baron’s sister, by a very good sort of a gentleman of the neighborhood, whom that young lady refused to marry, because he could produce no more than threescore and eleven quarterings in his arms; the rest of the genealogical tree belonging to the family having been lost through the injuries of time.
The baron was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia; for his castle had not only a gate, but even windows; and his great hall was hung with tapestry. He used to hunt with his mastiffs and spaniels instead of greyhounds; his groom served him for huntsman; and the parson of the parish officiated as his grand almoner. He was called My Lord by all his people, and he never told a story but every one laughed at it.
My lady baroness weighed three hundred and fifty pounds, consequently was a person of no small consideration; and then she did the honors of the house with a dignity that commanded universal respect. Her daughter was about seventeen years of age, fresh colored, comely, plump, and desirable. The baron’s son seemed to be a youth in every respect worthy of the father he sprung from. Pangloss, the preceptor, was the oracle of the family, and little Candide listened to his instructions with all the simplicity natural to his age and disposition.
Master Pangloss taught the metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology. He could prove to admiration that there is no effect without a cause; and, that in this best of all possible worlds, the baron’s castle was the most magnificent of all castles, and my lady the best of all possible baronesses.
It is demonstrable, said he, that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made to be hewn, and to construct castles, therefore My Lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought