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1,838 | 209_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Days pass without incident. The governess keeps the children under her constant supervision. She finds herself embracing her pupils more frequently and with sharper passion, and she wonders if they are aware of her suspicions. Likewise, the two children become increasingly fond of their governess and seek to please her... | [
"I waited and waited, and the days, as they elapsed, took something from\nmy consternation. A very few of them, in fact, passing, in constant\nsight of my pupils, without a fresh incident, sufficed to give to\ngrievous fancies and even to odious memories a kind of brush of the\nsponge. I have spoken of the surrende... |
1,839 | 209_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A moment later, the governess returns to her room to find that Flora is not in her bed, but the bed's curtains have been pulled forward. The governess is distraught but soon notices a movement behind the window blind. From under it Flora emerges with a grave expression. Flora reproaches the governess, asking where she ... | [
"I remained awhile at the top of the stair, but with the effect presently\nof understanding that when my visitor had gone, he had gone: then I\nreturned to my room. The foremost thing I saw there by the light of the\ncandle I had left burning was that Flora's little bed was empty; and on\nthis I caught my breath wi... |
1,840 | 209_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, as the children stroll together on the lawn under supervision, the governess informs Mrs. Grose of Miles's misconduct. The governess tells Mrs. Grose what passed between her and Miles after she had found him outside in the moonlight. When she had appeared on the lawn, he had promptly come to her, and she ... | [
"It was not till late next day that I spoke to Mrs. Grose; the rigor with\nwhich I kept my pupils in sight making it often difficult to meet\nher privately, and the more as we each felt the importance of not\nprovoking--on the part of the servants quite as much as on that of the\nchildren--any suspicion of a secret... |
1,841 | 209_chapter_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Grose is nonplussed by the governess's account, and so the governess explains her conclusion that the children have been meeting consistently with Quint and Miss Jessel. She goes so far as to claim that as the children stroll, they are "talking horrors" and plotting their next meeting with their two ghostly friend... | [
"The particular impression I had received proved in the morning light,\nI repeat, not quite successfully presentable to Mrs. Grose, though I\nreinforced it with the mention of still another remark that he had made\nbefore we separated. \"It all lies in half a dozen words,\" I said to her,\n\"words that really settl... |
1,842 | 209_chapter_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess believes that the children are aware that she knows about their relationships with Quint and Miss Jessel. When together, she and the children avoid any subject that nears forbidden territory, and she finds herself repeatedly recalling events in her personal history to fill conversational space. The season... | [
"It was all very well to join them, but speaking to them proved quite as\nmuch as ever an effort beyond my strength--offered, in close quarters,\ndifficulties as insurmountable as before. This situation continued a\nmonth, and with new aggravations and particular notes, the note above\nall, sharper and sharper, of ... |
1,843 | 209_chapter_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess walks to church accompanied by Miles. Mrs. Grose and Flora are ahead of them, on their way to church as well. On the way, Miles brings up school, asking when he will be going back. He quickly adds that he has grown tired of always being around women and points out that he has been very well behaved, excep... | [
"Walking to church a certain Sunday morning, I had little Miles at my\nside and his sister, in advance of us and at Mrs. Grose's, well in\nsight. It was a crisp, clear day, the first of its order for some time;\nthe night had brought a touch of frost, and the autumn air, bright\nand sharp, made the church bells alm... |
1,844 | 209_chapter_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess turns away from church, feeling defeated by Miles and taken aback by the sudden revelation that he possesses "consciousness and a plan. With the sudden intention of leaving Bly, she returns to the house and impulsively sits at the bottom of the staircase. She jumps up quickly, repulsed by the memory that ... | [
"The business was practically settled from the moment I never followed\nhim. It was a pitiful surrender to agitation, but my being aware of this\nhad somehow no power to restore me. I only sat there on my tomb and read\ninto what my little friend had said to me the fullness of its meaning;\nby the time I had graspe... |
1,845 | 209_chapter_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Grose and the two children return home from church and act as though the governess's absence is nothing unusual. The governess, hurt and upset, manages to get Mrs. Grose alone so that she can inquire as to whether the children "bribed her to silence. Mrs. Grose confirms the governess's suspicion, saying the childr... | [
"I had so perfectly expected that the return of my pupils would be marked\nby a demonstration that I was freshly upset at having to take into\naccount that they were dumb about my absence. Instead of gaily\ndenouncing and caressing me, they made no allusion to my having failed\nthem, and I was left, for the time, o... |
1,846 | 209_chapter_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess begins writing to the children's uncle that windy evening. Restless, she gets up to listen at Miles's door. Miles calls out for her to come in, saying he heard her walk across the passage. When the governess enters his room, Miles brings up the "queer business" of how the governess is bringing him up. Hol... | [
"I went so far, in the evening, as to make a beginning. The weather had\nchanged back, a great wind was abroad, and beneath the lamp, in my room,\nwith Flora at peace beside me, I sat for a long time before a blank\nsheet of paper and listened to the lash of the rain and the batter of\nthe gusts. Finally I went out... |
1,847 | 209_chapter_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day Mrs. Grose asks the governess if she has written the letter. The governess affirms this but does not mention that the letter has not yet been sent. That morning her pupils perform brilliantly at their tasks. After dinner, Miles approaches the governess to ask if she would like him to play the piano for her... | [
"The next day, after lessons, Mrs. Grose found a moment to say to me\nquietly: \"Have you written, miss?\"",
"\"Yes--I've written.\" But I didn't add--for the hour--that my letter,\nsealed and directed, was still in my pocket. There would be time enough\nto send it before the messenger should go to the village. M... |
1,848 | 209_chapter_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess and Mrs. Grose head to the lake, the governess convinced that Flora has fled to where she had seen the image of Miss Jessel. Flora is neither there nor seen on the opposite bank. The governess determines that Flora must have taken the boat, which is missing from its usual resting place. She leads Mrs. Gro... | [
"We went straight to the lake, as it was called at Bly, and I daresay rightly called, though I reflect that it may in fact have been a sheet of water less remarkable than it appeared to my untraveled eyes. My acquaintance with sheets of water was small, and the pool of Bly, at all events on the few occasions of my ... |
1,849 | 209_chapter_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Flora glares at the governess, and Mrs. Grose cries out. The governess grasps Mrs. Grose's arm and points out Miss Jessel on the opposite bank, delighted at having "brought on a proof. The governess is surprised by Flora's reaction, for she looks not in the direction of Miss Jessel but at the governess, glaring accusin... | [
"Just as in the churchyard with Miles, the whole thing was upon us. Much\nas I had made of the fact that this name had never once, between us,\nbeen sounded, the quick, smitten glare with which the child's face now\nreceived it fairly likened my breach of the silence to the smash of a\npane of glass. It added to th... |
1,850 | 209_chapter_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Grose wakes the governess with news that Flora is sick and terrified of the governess. According to Mrs. Grose, Flora has said nothing about Miss Jessel. The governess, surmising that Flora wants to get rid of her, constructs a plan calling for Mrs. Grose to take Flora straight to her uncle and for the governess t... | [
"Before a new day, in my room, had fully broken, my eyes opened to Mrs.\nGrose, who had come to my bedside with worse news. Flora was so markedly\nfeverish that an illness was perhaps at hand; she had passed a night of\nextreme unrest, a night agitated above all by fears that had for their\nsubject not in the least... |
1,851 | 209_chapter_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With Mrs. Grose and Flora gone, the governess focuses on her impending confrontation with Miles. She senses that the maids and men at Bly are staring at her and reacts by parading around to appear "remarkably firm. Her marching around the house doesn't seem to affect Miles. From a maid, the governess learns that Miles ... | [
"Yet it was when she had got off--and I missed her on the spot--that the\ngreat pinch really came. If I had counted on what it would give me to\nfind myself alone with Miles, I speedily perceived, at least, that it\nwould give me a measure. No hour of my stay in fact was so assailed\nwith apprehensions as that of m... |
1,852 | 209_chapter_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess demurs that they are not totally alone, and Miles agrees that there are "the others. Miles turns to the window. Turning back around, Miles expresses his happiness that Bly agrees with him. The governess asks if he has enjoyed his day of freedom. Miles turns the question on her, asking if she has enjoyed i... | [
"\"Oh, more or less.\" I fancy my smile was pale. \"Not absolutely. We\nshouldn't like that!\" I went on.",
"\"No--I suppose we shouldn't. Of course we have the others.\"",
"\"We have the others--we have indeed the others,\" I concurred.",
"\"Yet even though we have them,\" he returned, still with his hands i... |
1,853 | 209_chapter_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the middle of this conversation, the governess is suddenly distracted by Peter Quint looking in through the window. She springs up and draws Miles close, his back to the window. Miles confesses that he took the letter. Moaning with joy, the governess embraces him and notes the quickness of his pulse. Miles says he w... | [
"My sense of how he received this suffered for a minute from something\nthat I can describe only as a fierce split of my attention--a stroke\nthat at first, as I sprang straight up, reduced me to the mere blind\nmovement of getting hold of him, drawing him close, and, while I just\nfell for support against the near... |
1,868 | 19942_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Endowed with an "honest mind" and "great simplicity of heart," Candide lives in the castle of the Baron of Westphalia. He is rumored to be the illegitimate son of the Baroness, an imposing three hundred and fifty-pound woman. His tutor Pangloss, who inspires from an early age the greatest reverence, instills in him a d... | [
"In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of\nThunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the\nmost gentle manners. His countenance was a true picture of his soul. He\ncombined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the\nreason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide. T... |
1,869 | 19942_chapters_5-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jacques is thrown overboard while trying to help a sailor tossed by the tempest. In the ensuing shipwreck, Candide is injured by falling stonework. Pangloss invokes universal reason: "Things could not possibly be otherwise." At an Auto-da-fe, a public ceremony of repentance and humiliation, Candide is flogged and Pangl... | [
"Half dead of that inconceivable anguish which the rolling of a ship\nproduces, one-half of the passengers were not even sensible of the\ndanger. The other half shrieked and prayed. The sheets were rent, the\nmasts broken, the vessel gaped. Work who would, no one heard, no one\ncommanded. The Anabaptist being upon ... |
1,870 | 19942_chapters_13-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Cunegonde and Candide concede that the Old Woman's tales trump their own in terms of the cruelty and hardship endured. They lament the absence of Pangloss and the philosopher's wisdom. Upon arriving by ship to Buenos Ayres, the Governor Don Fernando becomes instantly smitten with Miss Cunegonde and inquires into t... | [
"The beautiful Cunegonde having heard the old woman's history, paid her\nall the civilities due to a person of her rank and merit. She likewise\naccepted her proposal, and engaged all the passengers, one after the\nother, to relate their adventures; and then both she and Candide allowed\nthat the old woman was in t... |
1,871 | 19942_chapters_21-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As they draw closer to the shore of France on their voyage, Martin pans France as a country where the "ruling passion is love, the next is slander, and the last is to talk nonsense." He describes Paris as "confused multitude, where everyone seeks for pleasure without being able to find it." Their discourse takes a phil... | [
"At length they descried the coast of France.",
"\"Were you ever in France, Mr. Martin?\" said Candide.",
"\"Yes,\" said Martin, \"I have been in several provinces. In some one-half\nof the people are fools, in others they are too cunning; in some they\nare weak and simple, in others they affect to be witty; in... |
1,872 | 19942_chapters_26-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide turns around one evening while dining in a tavern to lay his eyes upon Cacambo. Initially ecstatic at the thought that Miss Cunegonde accompanies him, he is once again disappointed to learn that Miss Cunegonde is in Constantinople, and worse, Cacambo has fallen back into the servitude of Sultan Achmet. Six stra... | [
"One evening that Candide and Martin were going to sit down to supper\nwith some foreigners who lodged in the same inn, a man whose complexion\nwas as black as soot, came behind Candide, and taking him by the arm,\nsaid:",
"\"Get yourself ready to go along with us; do not fail.\"",
"Upon this he turned round an... |
1,873 | 19942_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide lives in the country home of the influential Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia. We'd like to take this opportunity to give major props to Voltaire for creative names. Candide is the illegitimate son of the Baron's sister. Candide's mother refused to marry his father because his lineage could not be traced... | [
"In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of\nThunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the\nmost gentle manners. His countenance was a true picture of his soul. He\ncombined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the\nreason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide. T... |
1,874 | 19942_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide wanders penniless, cold, and hungry to a nearby town called Waldberghoff-tarbk-dikdorff. Two men ask Candide to dinner. Innocently, he accepts--but it is clear that the men have ulterior motives. The men lead Candide in a toast to the King of the Bulgars. Then they bind Candide with irons and conscript him into... | [
"Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without\nknowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often\ntowards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of\nnoble young ladies. He lay down to sleep without supper, in the middle\nof a field between two furr... |
1,875 | 19942_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The King of the Bulgars goes to battle with the King of Abars. The battle kills several thousand men on each side. Throughout the battle, Candide tries desperately to hide. As soon as it's safe to come out, he deserts. Candide wanders through scenes of horrible carnage, which Voltaire so kindly informs us include "arms... | [
"There was never anything so gallant, so spruce, so brilliant, and so\nwell disposed as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and\ncannon made music such as Hell itself had never heard. The cannons first\nof all laid flat about six thousand men on each side; the muskets swept\naway from this best of wor... |
1,876 | 19942_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide soon recognizes the beggar as Pangloss. Candide brings the weak and feeble Pangloss to the Anabaptist's house. Once revived, Pangloss informs Candide that Bulgar soldiers ravished the Baron's mansion, killed the entire family, and raped and murdered Cunegonde. As they deliver and receive the news, respectively,... | [
"Candide, yet more moved with compassion than with horror, gave to this\nshocking beggar the two florins which he had received from the honest\nAnabaptist James. The spectre looked at him very earnestly, dropped a\nfew tears, and fell upon his neck. Candide recoiled in disgust.",
"\"Alas!\" said one wretch to the... |
1,877 | 19942_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The ship starts splitting and taking on water. The people on the ship act accordingly; that is, they scream and run around. James the Anabaptist saves a sailor from drowning, but in doing so falls overboard himself. The sailor, in plain sight of the Anabaptist, does nothing to help him. Everyone on the ship drowns with... | [
"Half dead of that inconceivable anguish which the rolling of a ship\nproduces, one-half of the passengers were not even sensible of the\ndanger. The other half shrieked and prayed. The sheets were rent, the\nmasts broken, the vessel gaped. Work who would, no one heard, no one\ncommanded. The Anabaptist being upon ... |
1,878 | 19942_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lisbon authorities decide that, as a preventative measure against further earthquakes, they will stage a public execution. It's called an "Auto-da-fe" and it means "act of faith." One of the authorities chooses to execute a man who married his godmother , two Jewish men , and Pangloss . The authorities flog Candide for... | [
"After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of\nthat country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter\nruin than to give the people a beautiful _auto-da-fe_[6]; for it had\nbeen decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few\npeople alive by a slow fire, an... |
1,879 | 19942_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Old Woman offers Candide a meal, ointment for his wounds, and a good night's sleep. For several days the woman tends to Candide, but refuses to provide any explanation for her kindness. Once he stops bleeding profusely, the woman leads Candide a few miles into the country to yet another strange house. She brings a ... | [
"Candide did not take courage, but followed the old woman to a decayed\nhouse, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed\nhim a very neat little bed, with a suit of clothes hanging up, and left\nhim something to eat and drink.",
"\"Eat, drink, sleep,\" said she, \"and may our lady of Atocha,... |
1,880 | 19942_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cunegonde tells her story to Candide: Bulgar soldiers attack and kill her family and rape her. While Cunegonde fights off her attacker, a captain comes in and, enraged at the officer's disrespect, kills him. He then takes Cunegonde as a prisoner of war. The captain keeps Cunegonde as his servant for three months and th... | [
"\"I was in bed and fast asleep when it pleased God to send the Bulgarians\nto our delightful castle of Thunder-ten-Tronckh; they slew my father and\nbrother, and cut my mother in pieces. A tall Bulgarian, six feet high,\nperceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, began to ravish me;\nthis made me recover; I... |
1,881 | 19942_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Issachar sees Candide with Cunegonde and attacks him with his sword. Candide, conveniently armed, attacks and kills Issachar. Candide and Cunegonde consult the Old Woman about what to do now that they have a dead body on their hands. In the middle of their deliberation, the Inquisitor comes into the room to visit with ... | [
"This Issachar was the most choleric Hebrew that had ever been seen in\nIsrael since the Captivity in Babylon.",
"\"What!\" said he, \"thou bitch of a Galilean, was not the Inquisitor\nenough for thee? Must this rascal also share with me?\"",
"In saying this he drew a long poniard which he always carried about ... |
1,882 | 19942_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cunegonde has been robbed of her diamonds and moidores . The Old Woman suspects that a reverend friar who slept at their inn is the thief. They sell one of the horses for money and travel to Cadiz. In Cadiz, the group encounters troops assembled to depart for Paraguay to suppress rebellion. Candide impresses a general ... | [
"\"Who was it that robbed me of my money and jewels?\" said Cunegonde, all\nbathed in tears. \"How shall we live? What shall we do? Where find\nInquisitors or Jews who will give me more?\"",
"\"Alas!\" said the old woman, \"I have a shrewd suspicion of a reverend\nGrey Friar, who stayed last night in the same inn... |
1,883 | 19942_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Old Woman recounts her life story to Cunegonde and Candide: The Old Woman is the child of Pope Urban X and the Princess of Palestrina. Voltaire, in a footnote, applauds his discretion in inventing this pope rather than attributing an illegitimate child to a real one. As a young woman, she is super hot. She has a br... | [
"\"I had not always bleared eyes and red eyelids; neither did my nose\nalways touch my chin; nor was I always a servant. I am the daughter of\nPope Urban X,[10] and of the Princess of Palestrina. Until the age of\nfourteen I was brought up in a palace, to which all the castles of your\nGerman barons would scarcely ... |
1,884 | 19942_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The woman's response to the Italian man? "You think not having balls is bad? Wait until you hear my life story." Then she tells it to him. She passes out and he carries her to his little cottage, where she finds out that 1) he was made a eunuch as a child so as to keep his lovely high-pitched voice, and 2) he used to b... | [
"\"Astonished and delighted to hear my native language, and no less\nsurprised at what this man said, I made answer that there were much\ngreater misfortunes than that of which he complained. I told him in a\nfew words of the horrors which I had endured, and fainted a second time.\nHe carried me to a neighbouring h... |
1,885 | 19942_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Old Woman's suggestion, Cunegonde and Candide persuade each passenger on the boat to recount their life stories. The group arrives and the extremely arrogant Governor Don Fernando d'Ibaraa y Figueora y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza asks if Cunegonde and Candide are married. Candide, too honest to lie, says tha... | [
"The beautiful Cunegonde having heard the old woman's history, paid her\nall the civilities due to a person of her rank and merit. She likewise\naccepted her proposal, and engaged all the passengers, one after the\nother, to relate their adventures; and then both she and Candide allowed\nthat the old woman was in t... |
1,886 | 19942_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide's servant, Cacambo, immediately saddles two horses and urges Candide to leave. Candide does not want to leave without Cunegonde, even though she seems fickle and disloyal. Cacambo tries to cheer him up and suggests that they find the Jesuits in Paraguay and fight on their side, against the Governor. This should... | [
"Candide had brought such a valet with him from Cadiz, as one often meets\nwith on the coasts of Spain and in the American colonies. He was a\nquarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy,\nsacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey. His name was\nCacambo, and he loved his maste... |
1,887 | 19942_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Baron tells his life story to Candide: After the Bulgar soldiers attack, he is severely wounded and taken away to be buried. A Jesuit priest sprinkles saltwater over the supposedly dead Baron as a blessing, but sees the Baron's eyes flicker. Fortunately, the Jesuit cares for the Baron and restores him to health. Th... | [
"\"I shall have ever present to my memory the dreadful day, on which I saw\nmy father and mother killed, and my sister ravished. When the Bulgarians\nretired, my dear sister could not be found; but my mother, my father,\nand myself, with two maid-servants and three little boys all of whom had\nbeen slain, were put ... |
1,888 | 19942_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide and Cacambo stop for a meal. While they eat, Candide despairs about Cunegonde. They stop to rest by a meadow and observe the lovely scenic and tranquil environment: birds chirping, water gurgling, naked women running around with monkeys trying to bite their buttocks. This really happens. Candide does what any n... | [
"Candide and his valet had got beyond the barrier, before it was known in\nthe camp that the German Jesuit was dead. The wary Cacambo had taken\ncare to fill his wallet with bread, chocolate, bacon, fruit, and a few\nbottles of wine. With their Andalusian horses they penetrated into an\nunknown country, where they ... |
1,889 | 19942_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cacambo and Candide start to feel paranoid, and quite rightly so since they are being pursued from basically every direction. They decide to seek refuge in Cayenne. They travel to the point of "are we there yet?" feelings of distress. One day, they see a river lined with coconut trees. They spot an empty boat, fill it ... | [
"\"You see,\" said Cacambo to Candide, as soon as they had reached the\nfrontiers of the Oreillons, \"that this hemisphere is not better than the\nothers, take my word for it; let us go back to Europe by the shortest\nway.\"",
"\"How go back?\" said Candide, \"and where shall we go? to my own country?\nThe Bulgar... |
1,890 | 19942_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cacambo and Candide are directed to the oldest man in the kingdom to ask questions. The Old Man explains that the land, called El Dorado, was formerly the land of the Incas and had been shielded from European conquest by its fortunate positioning between massive mountains. The Old Man explains the systems of government... | [
"Cacambo expressed his curiosity to the landlord, who made answer:",
"\"I am very ignorant, but not the worse on that account. However, we have\nin this neighbourhood an old man retired from Court who is the most\nlearned and most communicative person in the kingdom.\"",
"At once he took Cacambo to the old man.... |
1,891 | 19942_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After one hundred days of travel, Candide and Cacambo have lost the majority of their sheep and riches. Nevertheless, the two remaining sheep carry more jewels than they could ever need. The men encounter a destitute slave in the road, who reveals that his master's name is Vanderdendur . His horrid state makes Candide ... | [
"Our travellers spent the first day very agreeably. They were delighted\nwith possessing more treasure than all Asia, Europe, and Africa could\nscrape together. Candide, in his raptures, cut Cunegonde's name on the\ntrees. The second day two of their sheep plunged into a morass, where\nthey and their burdens were l... |
1,892 | 19942_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although Candide feels displeased with his misfortune, he still has sufficient wealth and therefore figures Cunegonde will marry him eventually. Martin, on the other hand, is hopeless. He believes that people are inherently evil. Martin reveals that he is a Manichaeist. Manichaeism was an antiquated religion that belie... | [
"The old philosopher, whose name was Martin, embarked then with Candide\nfor Bordeaux. They had both seen and suffered a great deal; and if the\nvessel had sailed from Surinam to Japan, by the Cape of Good Hope, the\nsubject of moral and natural evil would have enabled them to entertain\none another during the whol... |
1,893 | 19942_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As they approach the coast of France, Candide asks Martin about his travels. Martin expounds rather humorously on the different places of the world: France is full of fools and lovesick madmen, and Venice is no good unless you're from Venice. He also declares that the world was created "to make us mad." He makes a fant... | [
"At length they descried the coast of France.",
"\"Were you ever in France, Mr. Martin?\" said Candide.",
"\"Yes,\" said Martin, \"I have been in several provinces. In some one-half\nof the people are fools, in others they are too cunning; in some they\nare weak and simple, in others they affect to be witty; in... |
1,894 | 19942_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide and Martin travel toward Venice. Candide wants to make a detour to Paris since he has heard it praised . Candide feels a little sick from his journey. Because everyone can see that he's rich, attendees quickly surround him to treat his illness. Because their medicine involves making Candide vomit and bleed, he ... | [
"Candide stayed in Bordeaux no longer than was necessary for the selling\nof a few of the pebbles of El Dorado, and for hiring a good chaise to\nhold two passengers; for he could not travel without his Philosopher\nMartin. He was only vexed at parting with his sheep, which he left to\nthe Bordeaux Academy of Scienc... |
1,895 | 19942_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide and Martin discuss the relative horrors of France and Britain while aboard a ship on the way to England. Martin can't decide which country is worse. While docked temporarily in Portsmouth, England, Candide and Martin observe the execution of an admiral. They inquire as to why the man is being executed and disco... | [
"\"Ah, Pangloss! Pangloss! Ah, Martin! Martin! Ah, my dear Cunegonde, what\nsort of a world is this?\" said Candide on board the Dutch ship.",
"\"Something very foolish and abominable,\" said Martin.",
"\"You know England? Are they as foolish there as in France?\"",
"\"It is another kind of folly,\" said Mart... |
1,896 | 19942_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide and Martin arrive in Venice. For several months, Candide searches for word of Cacambo and Cunegonde, but is unable to find them. He assumes the worst and becomes depressed. He wishes he had stayed in El Dorado. Martin, ever the pessimist, suggests that Candide has too much faith in Cacambo. Most likely, he says... | [
"Upon their arrival at Venice, Candide went to search for Cacambo at\nevery inn and coffee-house, and among all the ladies of pleasure, but to\nno purpose. He sent every day to inquire on all the ships that came in.\nBut there was no news of Cacambo.",
"\"What!\" said he to Martin, \"I have had time to voyage fro... |
1,897 | 19942_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide and Martin arrive at Count Pococurante's magnificent home. Although he is without want, the count expresses discontent with his relationships with women, the Raphael paintings that decorate his home, the music being played for him, opera, philosophy, and almost all of the great literature housed in his extensiv... | [
"Candide and Martin went in a gondola on the Brenta, and arrived at the\npalace of the noble Signor Pococurante. The gardens, laid out with\ntaste, were adorned with fine marble statues. The palace was beautifully\nbuilt. The master of the house was a man of sixty, and very rich. He\nreceived the two travellers wit... |
1,898 | 19942_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While dining at an inn one evening, Cacambo shows up. Cacambo explains that he has become a slave and that Cunegonde is in Constantinople. He then suggests that they peace the hell out, sooner rather than later. Candide dines with Martin and six strangers, all of whom are revealed to be dethroned kings. As expected, th... | [
"One evening that Candide and Martin were going to sit down to supper\nwith some foreigners who lodged in the same inn, a man whose complexion\nwas as black as soot, came behind Candide, and taking him by the arm,\nsaid:",
"\"Get yourself ready to go along with us; do not fail.\"",
"Upon this he turned round an... |
1,899 | 19942_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The ship captain responsible for one of the former kings, Sultan Achmet, agrees to take Candide and Martin to Constantinople. Cacambo tells Candide that Cunegonde works alongside the Old Woman as a servant for a Turkish prince. Also, Cunegonde is now ugly. Cacambo reveals that he is a slave of the dethroned Sultan Achm... | [
"The faithful Cacambo had already prevailed upon the Turkish skipper, who\nwas to conduct the Sultan Achmet to Constantinople, to receive Candide\nand Martin on his ship. They both embarked after having made their\nobeisance to his miserable Highness.",
"\"You see,\" said Candide to Martin on the way, \"we supped... |
1,900 | 19942_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide learns that after recovering from the stab wound and a series of other dramatic events, the Baron was ordered to the galleys by a judge for bathing with a Muslim man. Pangloss was incompetently hanged, so it didn't so much kill him as give him a brutal crick in the neck. He was revived by a man who originally i... | [
"\"I ask your pardon once more,\" said Candide to the Baron, \"your pardon,\nreverend father, for having run you through the body.\"",
"\"Say no more about it,\" answered the Baron. \"I was a little too hasty, I own, but since you wish to know by what fatality I came to be a galley-slave I will inform you. After ... |
1,901 | 19942_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide, Martin, Cacambo, Pangloss, and the Baron eventually find Cunegonde and the Old Woman. Because no one has informed her, Cunegonde doesn't know she has lost her beauty. Candide goes to hug her and tries to hide his grimace. The Baron refuses to let Candide marry his sister. Still. Not because of the stabbing inc... | [
"While Candide, the Baron, Pangloss, Martin, and Cacambo were relating\ntheir several adventures, were reasoning on the contingent or\nnon-contingent events of the universe, disputing on effects and causes,\non moral and physical evil, on liberty and necessity, and on the\nconsolations a slave may feel even on a Tu... |
1,902 | 19942_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide returns the Baron to his slavery in the galleys. Although the thought of making love to Cunegonde in her current state is really unappealing to Candide, he marries her as a matter of principle. Candide and his friends acquire a farm where they live together. Despite having finally achieved his goal, Candide is ... | [
"At the bottom of his heart Candide had no wish to marry Cunegonde. But\nthe extreme impertinence of the Baron determined him to conclude the\nmatch, and Cunegonde pressed him so strongly that he could not go from\nhis word. He consulted Pangloss, Martin, and the faithful Cacambo.\nPangloss drew up an excellent mem... |
1,873 | 19942_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The story begins in Westphalia at the castle of the high and mighty Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, his three-hundred-fifty-pound wife, their beautiful young daughter Cunegonde, and an unnamed son. Living happily at the castle is Candide, whose name points to his character -- that of one who is simple of mind and sound o... | [
"In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of\nThunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the\nmost gentle manners. His countenance was a true picture of his soul. He\ncombined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the\nreason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide. T... |
1,903 | 19942_chapters_2-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide was now reduced to a state of misery as, in the freezing cold, he dragged himself toward the neighboring town, nearly dying from hunger and fatigue. At the door of an inn two uniformed men addressed him. Strangely enough, they offered to buy him food and to give him money simply because he was five feet five in... | [
"Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without\nknowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often\ntowards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of\nnoble young ladies. He lay down to sleep without supper, in the middle\nof a field between two furr... |
1,904 | 19942_chapters_4-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Irony of ironies! The diseased, pathetic beggar turned out to be that confident exponent of optimism, the learned Doctor Pangloss, and he had a most dismal report of what had been happening in the best of all possible worlds. Candide's adored Cunegonde was dead. After having swooned and then revived, Candide might well... | [
"Candide, yet more moved with compassion than with horror, gave to this\nshocking beggar the two florins which he had received from the honest\nAnabaptist James. The spectre looked at him very earnestly, dropped a\nfew tears, and fell upon his neck. Candide recoiled in disgust.",
"\"Alas!\" said one wretch to the... |
1,905 | 19942_chapters_7-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The old woman led Candide to a hovel, provided ointment for his wounds, gave him food and drink, and arranged to get for him a suit of clothes and an acceptable bed. Candide found himself overwhelmed by her charity, and he endeavored to kiss her hand. But it was not her hand that he should kiss, he was informed enigmat... | [
"Candide did not take courage, but followed the old woman to a decayed\nhouse, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed\nhim a very neat little bed, with a suit of clothes hanging up, and left\nhim something to eat and drink.",
"\"Eat, drink, sleep,\" said she, \"and may our lady of Atocha,... |
1,906 | 19942_chapters_11-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The old woman revealed herself to be the daughter of Pope Urban X and the princess of Palestrina, and until the age of fourteen she had lived in a castle that far exceeded in splendor any German castle. Indeed, her dresses were worth more than all the magnificence of Westphalia. And, of course, she was a peerless beaut... | [
"\"I had not always bleared eyes and red eyelids; neither did my nose\nalways touch my chin; nor was I always a servant. I am the daughter of\nPope Urban X,[10] and of the Princess of Palestrina. Until the age of\nfourteen I was brought up in a palace, to which all the castles of your\nGerman barons would scarcely ... |
1,907 | 19942_chapters_13-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The old woman had advised Cunegonde to get the passengers to tell her their adventures. The latter did so and found that the pessimistic argument was correct. Candide expressed regret that Pangloss was not present to voice his optimistic philosophy and that he would now offer the learned doctor a few objections. The ol... | [
"The beautiful Cunegonde having heard the old woman's history, paid her\nall the civilities due to a person of her rank and merit. She likewise\naccepted her proposal, and engaged all the passengers, one after the\nother, to relate their adventures; and then both she and Candide allowed\nthat the old woman was in t... |
1,908 | 19942_chapters_17-18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the frontiers of the Oreillon country, Cacambo told Candide that this hemisphere was no better than the other and that they ought to go back to Europe. Candide, rudely awakened regarding the world he knew in Western Europe, had been sure that the New World would be that best of all possible ones. But he replied that... | [
"\"You see,\" said Cacambo to Candide, as soon as they had reached the\nfrontiers of the Oreillons, \"that this hemisphere is not better than the\nothers, take my word for it; let us go back to Europe by the shortest\nway.\"",
"\"How go back?\" said Candide, \"and where shall we go? to my own country?\nThe Bulgar... |
1,909 | 19942_chapters_20-23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide and Martin, as the old man identified himself, set sail for Bordeaux, and the topic of moral and physical evil was the dominant one discussed by the two during the voyage, for both had suffered much. But Candide had one thing to sustain him: the hope of seeing Cunegonde again, and he still had some Eldoradoan g... | [
"The old philosopher, whose name was Martin, embarked then with Candide\nfor Bordeaux. They had both seen and suffered a great deal; and if the\nvessel had sailed from Surinam to Japan, by the Cape of Good Hope, the\nsubject of moral and natural evil would have enabled them to entertain\none another during the whol... |
1,910 | 19942_chapters_24-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Immediately upon reaching Venice, Candide began searching for Cacambo. Every day he had all the ships and boats investigated, but he learned no news of his servant. As he explained to Martin, after his long journey from South America he had met only a tricky abbe from Perigord. He was sure that Cunegonde was dead, and ... | [
"Upon their arrival at Venice, Candide went to search for Cacambo at\nevery inn and coffee-house, and among all the ladies of pleasure, but to\nno purpose. He sent every day to inquire on all the ships that came in.\nBut there was no news of Cacambo.",
"\"What!\" said he to Martin, \"I have had time to voyage fro... |
1,911 | 19942_chapters_27-30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cacambo had made arrangements for Candide and himself to sail aboard a ship commanded by a Turkish captain under orders of the Sultan Ahmed. Both prostrated themselves before his "miserable Highness." En route, Candide, in whose breast hope sprang eternal, contemplated the lot of the six kings he had met in Venice and ... | [
"The faithful Cacambo had already prevailed upon the Turkish skipper, who\nwas to conduct the Sultan Achmet to Constantinople, to receive Candide\nand Martin on his ship. They both embarked after having made their\nobeisance to his miserable Highness.",
"\"You see,\" said Candide to Martin on the way, \"we supped... |
1,873 | 19942_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 1. those who say everything is well are uttering mere stupidities; they should say everything is for the best. Candide lives in the castle of the baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia. Candide is the illegitimate son of the baron's sister. His mother refused to marry his father because his father's family ... | [
"In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of\nThunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the\nmost gentle manners. His countenance was a true picture of his soul. He\ncombined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the\nreason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide. T... |
1,874 | 19942_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide wanders to the next town, where two men find him half-dead with hunger and fatigue. They give him money, feed him, and ask him to drink to the health of the king of the Bulgars. They then conscript him to serve in the Bulgar army, where Candide suffers abuse and hardship as he is indoctrinated into military lif... | [
"Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without\nknowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often\ntowards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of\nnoble young ladies. He lay down to sleep without supper, in the middle\nof a field between two furr... |
1,875 | 19942_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The war results in unbelievable carnage, and Candide deserts at the first opportunity. In both kingdoms he sees burning villages full of butchered and dying civilians. Candide escapes to Holland, where he comes upon a Protestant orator explaining the value of charity to a crowd of listeners. The orator asks Candide whe... | [
"There was never anything so gallant, so spruce, so brilliant, and so\nwell disposed as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and\ncannon made music such as Hell itself had never heard. The cannons first\nof all laid flat about six thousand men on each side; the muskets swept\naway from this best of wor... |
1,876 | 19942_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide finds a deformed beggar in the street. The beggar is Pangloss. Pangloss tells Candide that the Bulgars attacked the baron's castle and killed the baron, his wife, and his son, and raped and murdered Cunegonde. Pangloss explains that syphilis, which he contracted from Paquette, has ravaged his body. Still, he be... | [
"Candide, yet more moved with compassion than with horror, gave to this\nshocking beggar the two florins which he had received from the honest\nAnabaptist James. The spectre looked at him very earnestly, dropped a\nfew tears, and fell upon his neck. Candide recoiled in disgust.",
"\"Alas!\" said one wretch to the... |
1,877 | 19942_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A furious storm overtakes Candide's ship on its way to Lisbon. Jacques tries to save a sailor who has almost fallen overboard. He saves the sailor but falls overboard himself, and the sailor does nothing to help him. The ship sinks, and Pangloss, Candide, and the sailor are the only survivors. They reach shore and walk... | [
"Half dead of that inconceivable anguish which the rolling of a ship\nproduces, one-half of the passengers were not even sensible of the\ndanger. The other half shrieked and prayed. The sheets were rent, the\nmasts broken, the vessel gaped. Work who would, no one heard, no one\ncommanded. The Anabaptist being upon ... |
1,878 | 19942_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Portuguese authorities decide to burn a few people alive to prevent future earthquakes. They choose one man because he has married his godmother, and two others because they have refused to eat bacon. The authorities hang Pangloss for his opinions and publicly flog Candide for "listening with an air of approval. Wh... | [
"After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of\nthat country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter\nruin than to give the people a beautiful _auto-da-fe_[6]; for it had\nbeen decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few\npeople alive by a slow fire, an... |
1,879 | 19942_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Just then an old woman approaches Candide, treats his wounds, gives him new clothes, and feeds him. After two days, she leads him to a house in the country to meet his real benefactor, Cunegonde | [
"Candide did not take courage, but followed the old woman to a decayed\nhouse, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed\nhim a very neat little bed, with a suit of clothes hanging up, and left\nhim something to eat and drink.",
"\"Eat, drink, sleep,\" said she, \"and may our lady of Atocha,... |
1,880 | 19942_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cunegonde explains to Candide that the Bulgars have killed her family. After executing a soldier whom he found raping Cunegonde, a Bulgar captain took Cunegonde as his mistress and later sold her to a Jew, Don Issachar. After seeing her at Mass, the Grand Inquisitor wanted to buy her from Don Issachar; when Don Issacha... | [
"\"I was in bed and fast asleep when it pleased God to send the Bulgarians\nto our delightful castle of Thunder-ten-Tronckh; they slew my father and\nbrother, and cut my mother in pieces. A tall Bulgarian, six feet high,\nperceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, began to ravish me;\nthis made me recover; I... |
1,881 | 19942_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Don Issachar arrives to find Cunegonde and Candide alone together, and attacks Candide in a jealous rage. Candide kills Don Issachar with a sword given to him by the old woman. The Grand Inquisitor arrives to enjoy his allotted time with Cunegonde and is surprised to find Candide. Candide kills him. Cunegonde gathers h... | [
"This Issachar was the most choleric Hebrew that had ever been seen in\nIsrael since the Captivity in Babylon.",
"\"What!\" said he, \"thou bitch of a Galilean, was not the Inquisitor\nenough for thee? Must this rascal also share with me?\"",
"In saying this he drew a long poniard which he always carried about ... |
1,882 | 19942_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Franciscan friar steals Cunegonde's jewels. Despite his agreement with Pangloss's philosophy that "the fruits of the earth are a common heritage of all," Candide nonetheless laments the loss. Candide and Cunegonde sell one horse and travel to Cadiz, where they find troops preparing to sail to the New World. Paraguaya... | [
"\"Who was it that robbed me of my money and jewels?\" said Cunegonde, all\nbathed in tears. \"How shall we live? What shall we do? Where find\nInquisitors or Jews who will give me more?\"",
"\"Alas!\" said the old woman, \"I have a shrewd suspicion of a reverend\nGrey Friar, who stayed last night in the same inn... |
1,883 | 19942_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The old woman tells her story. It turns out that she is the daughter of Pope Urban X and the princess of Palestrina. She was raised in the midst of incredible wealth. At fourteen, already a stunning beauty, she was engaged to the prince of Massa Carrara. The two of them loved each another passionately. However, during ... | [
"\"I had not always bleared eyes and red eyelids; neither did my nose\nalways touch my chin; nor was I always a servant. I am the daughter of\nPope Urban X,[10] and of the Princess of Palestrina. Until the age of\nfourteen I was brought up in a palace, to which all the castles of your\nGerman barons would scarcely ... |
1,884 | 19942_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A hundred times I wanted to kill myself, but always I loved life more. The old woman continues her story. Despite the eunuch's attempt to rape her, she was delighted to encounter a countryman, and the eunuch carried her to a nearby cottage to care for her. They discovered that he had once served in her mother's palace.... | [
"\"Astonished and delighted to hear my native language, and no less\nsurprised at what this man said, I made answer that there were much\ngreater misfortunes than that of which he complained. I told him in a\nfew words of the horrors which I had endured, and fainted a second time.\nHe carried me to a neighbouring h... |
1,885 | 19942_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the old woman's urging, Candide and Cunegonde ask their fellow passengers about their experiences. They find that the old woman's prediction is correct. When the ship docks at Buenos Aires, they visit the haughty, self-important governor, Don Fernando d'Ibaraa y Figueora y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza, who orders... | [
"The beautiful Cunegonde having heard the old woman's history, paid her\nall the civilities due to a person of her rank and merit. She likewise\naccepted her proposal, and engaged all the passengers, one after the\nother, to relate their adventures; and then both she and Candide allowed\nthat the old woman was in t... |
1,886 | 19942_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide's new valet Cacambo is fond of his master and urges Candide to follow the old woman's advice. Cacambo tells Candide not to worry about Cunegonde because God always takes care of women. Cacambo suggests that they fight on the side of the rebellious Paraguayan Jesuits. The two reach the rebel guard and ask to spe... | [
"Candide had brought such a valet with him from Cadiz, as one often meets\nwith on the coasts of Spain and in the American colonies. He was a\nquarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy,\nsacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey. His name was\nCacambo, and he loved his maste... |
1,887 | 19942_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the Bulgars attacked the castle, the colonel was left unconscious and appeared dead. He was thrown into a cart full of corpses and taken to a Jesuit chapel for burial. A Jesuit sprinkling holy water on the bodies noticed the colonel's eyes moving, and immediately made arrangements for the colonel's care. After thr... | [
"\"I shall have ever present to my memory the dreadful day, on which I saw\nmy father and mother killed, and my sister ravished. When the Bulgarians\nretired, my dear sister could not be found; but my mother, my father,\nand myself, with two maid-servants and three little boys all of whom had\nbeen slain, were put ... |
1,888 | 19942_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide and Cacambo end up in a strange country with no roads. They see two naked women running in a meadow pursued by two monkeys biting at their legs. Candide hopes he can rescue the women and gain their assistance, and so he kills the monkeys. However, instead of being grateful the women fall to the ground and weep ... | [
"Candide and his valet had got beyond the barrier, before it was known in\nthe camp that the German Jesuit was dead. The wary Cacambo had taken\ncare to fill his wallet with bread, chocolate, bacon, fruit, and a few\nbottles of wine. With their Andalusian horses they penetrated into an\nunknown country, where they ... |
1,889 | 19942_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cacambo and Candide continue to travel, but their horses die and their food runs out. They find an abandoned canoe and row down a river, hoping to find signs of civilization. After a day, their canoe smashes against some rocks. Cacambo and Candide make their way to a village, where they find children playing with emera... | [
"\"You see,\" said Cacambo to Candide, as soon as they had reached the\nfrontiers of the Oreillons, \"that this hemisphere is not better than the\nothers, take my word for it; let us go back to Europe by the shortest\nway.\"",
"\"How go back?\" said Candide, \"and where shall we go? to my own country?\nThe Bulgar... |
1,890 | 19942_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cacambo and Candide go to see the village sage, a 172-year-old man. The sage explains that his people have vowed never to leave their kingdom, which is called Eldorado. High mountains surround the kingdom, so no outsiders can get in, making Eldorado safe from European conquests. They also have a God whom they thank eve... | [
"Cacambo expressed his curiosity to the landlord, who made answer:",
"\"I am very ignorant, but not the worse on that account. However, we have\nin this neighbourhood an old man retired from Court who is the most\nlearned and most communicative person in the kingdom.\"",
"At once he took Cacambo to the old man.... |
1,891 | 19942_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cacambo and Candide lose all but two sheep as they travel to Surinam, but the last two sheep still carry a sizable fortune. Cacambo and Candide meet a slave on the road who is missing a leg and a hand. The slave tells them that his own mother sold him to his cruel master, Vanderdendur. He tells them of the misery of sl... | [
"Our travellers spent the first day very agreeably. They were delighted\nwith possessing more treasure than all Asia, Europe, and Africa could\nscrape together. Candide, in his raptures, cut Cunegonde's name on the\ntrees. The second day two of their sheep plunged into a morass, where\nthey and their burdens were l... |
1,892 | 19942_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide still has a little money and a few jewels, and hopes to use what he has to recover Cunegonde. His love and remaining fortune momentarily renew his faith in Pangloss's philosophy. Martin the scholar, on the other hand, maintains that God has abandoned the world because men kill and maim one another everywhere. E... | [
"The old philosopher, whose name was Martin, embarked then with Candide\nfor Bordeaux. They had both seen and suffered a great deal; and if the\nvessel had sailed from Surinam to Japan, by the Cape of Good Hope, the\nsubject of moral and natural evil would have enabled them to entertain\none another during the whol... |
1,893 | 19942_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the coast of France is in sight, Candide asks Martin if he has ever been to Paris. Martin says he has, and describes his previous encounters with the French and his disgust at what he calls their lack of manners. Candide asks Martin why the world was made, and Martin replies, "To make us mad. Candide then asks Mar... | [
"At length they descried the coast of France.",
"\"Were you ever in France, Mr. Martin?\" said Candide.",
"\"Yes,\" said Martin, \"I have been in several provinces. In some one-half\nof the people are fools, in others they are too cunning; in some they\nare weak and simple, in others they affect to be witty; in... |
1,894 | 19942_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The ship arrives in France, and Candide buys a carriage so that he and Martin can continue to travel together. They decide to visit Paris, but Candide becomes ill upon arriving at their hotel. Candide wears a large diamond on his hand that attracts a great number of new friends, including two physicians, who force thei... | [
"Candide stayed in Bordeaux no longer than was necessary for the selling\nof a few of the pebbles of El Dorado, and for hiring a good chaise to\nhold two passengers; for he could not travel without his Philosopher\nMartin. He was only vexed at parting with his sheep, which he left to\nthe Bordeaux Academy of Scienc... |
1,895 | 19942_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the ship is near shore, Martin and Candide witness the execution of an admiral. They learn that England executes admirals periodically to encourage the rest of the fleet to fight harder, and that this particular admiral was sentenced to death for failing to incite his men to get closer to the enemy during a battle... | [
"\"Ah, Pangloss! Pangloss! Ah, Martin! Martin! Ah, my dear Cunegonde, what\nsort of a world is this?\" said Candide on board the Dutch ship.",
"\"Something very foolish and abominable,\" said Martin.",
"\"You know England? Are they as foolish there as in France?\"",
"\"It is another kind of folly,\" said Mart... |
1,896 | 19942_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Candide fails to find Cunegonde and Cacambo after several months in Venice, he falls into despair. He begins to agree with Martin's claim that the world is misery. Martin scolds Candide for trusting a valet with a fortune of millions, and repeats his argument that there is "little virtue and little happiness on th... | [
"Upon their arrival at Venice, Candide went to search for Cacambo at\nevery inn and coffee-house, and among all the ladies of pleasure, but to\nno purpose. He sent every day to inquire on all the ships that came in.\nBut there was no news of Cacambo.",
"\"What!\" said he to Martin, \"I have had time to voyage fro... |
1,897 | 19942_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide visits Count Pococurante in Venice. The wealthy count has a marvelous collection of art and books, but he is unable to enjoy any of it. He finds the paintings of Raphael unpleasant and the works of Homer, Horace, and Milton tiresome. The count once pretended to appreciate these things in front of others, but is... | [
"Candide and Martin went in a gondola on the Brenta, and arrived at the\npalace of the noble Signor Pococurante. The gardens, laid out with\ntaste, were adorned with fine marble statues. The palace was beautifully\nbuilt. The master of the house was a man of sixty, and very rich. He\nreceived the two travellers wit... |
1,898 | 19942_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During Venice's Carnival season, Candide and Martin are dining with six strangers in an inn when they encounter Cacambo, who is now the slave of one of the six strangers. Cacambo explains that Cunegonde is in Constantinople and offers to bring Candide to her. Summoned by his master, he is unable to say any more. Candid... | [
"One evening that Candide and Martin were going to sit down to supper\nwith some foreigners who lodged in the same inn, a man whose complexion\nwas as black as soot, came behind Candide, and taking him by the arm,\nsaid:",
"\"Get yourself ready to go along with us; do not fail.\"",
"Upon this he turned round an... |
1,899 | 19942_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the way to Constantinople with Cacambo and his master, Candide and Martin learn that Cacambo bought Cunegonde and the old woman from Don Fernando, but that a pirate abducted them and sold them as slaves. Cunegonde has grown horribly ugly, but Candide resolves to love her anyway. Candide purchases Cacambo's freedom. ... | [
"The faithful Cacambo had already prevailed upon the Turkish skipper, who\nwas to conduct the Sultan Achmet to Constantinople, to receive Candide\nand Martin on his ship. They both embarked after having made their\nobeisance to his miserable Highness.",
"\"You see,\" said Candide to Martin on the way, \"we supped... |
1,900 | 19942_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While the group travels to rescue Cunegonde, the baron and Pangloss tell their stories. The baron bears no ill will toward Candide for stabbing him. After his wound healed, Spanish troops attacked him and sent him to jail in Buenos Aires. The baron eventually returned to Rome to serve his Jesuit order, but was caught b... | [
"\"I ask your pardon once more,\" said Candide to the Baron, \"your pardon,\nreverend father, for having run you through the body.\"",
"\"Say no more about it,\" answered the Baron. \"I was a little too hasty, I own, but since you wish to know by what fatality I came to be a galley-slave I will inform you. After ... |
1,901 | 19942_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Candide purchases the old woman, Cunegonde, and a small farm. Cunegonde reminds Candide of his promise to marry her. Though horrified by her ugliness, Candide does not dare refuse. However, the baron again declares that he will not live to see his sister marry beneath her rank | [
"While Candide, the Baron, Pangloss, Martin, and Cacambo were relating\ntheir several adventures, were reasoning on the contingent or\nnon-contingent events of the universe, disputing on effects and causes,\non moral and physical evil, on liberty and necessity, and on the\nconsolations a slave may feel even on a Tu... |
1,902 | 19942_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I should like to know which is worse, being raped a hundred times by negro pirates. or. just sitting here and doing nothing. Pangloss draws up a formal treatise declaring that the baron has no rights over his sister. Martin is in favor of drowning the baron. Cacambo suggests that they return the baron to the galleys wi... | [
"At the bottom of his heart Candide had no wish to marry Cunegonde. But\nthe extreme impertinence of the Baron determined him to conclude the\nmatch, and Cunegonde pressed him so strongly that he could not go from\nhis word. He consulted Pangloss, Martin, and the faithful Cacambo.\nPangloss drew up an excellent mem... |
1,873 | 19942_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Voltaire begins his picaresque tale by introducing the characters who live in the castle of Westphalia, a province in western Germany. Candide, which means optimism, is the first character introduced, and Voltaire explains that he is the Baron's nephew. Though Candide has respectable parents, he is a bastard by birth, ... | [
"In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of\nThunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the\nmost gentle manners. His countenance was a true picture of his soul. He\ncombined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the\nreason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide. T... |
1,874 | 19942_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the second chapter, Candide finds himself "ejected from the earthly paradise" to which he had grown accustomed. Drifting to a neighboring village, and now very cold and hungry, he stumbles across two recruiting officers of Frederick the Great standing outside a tavern. The two men seem enamored by Candide's height o... | [
"Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without\nknowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often\ntowards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of\nnoble young ladies. He lay down to sleep without supper, in the middle\nof a field between two furr... |
1,875 | 19942_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 3 takes place in the midst of a giant battle between the Bulgars and the Abares. While writing this, Voltaire was probably considering the Seven Years' War , which was fought between the French and the Prussians. Here, Voltaire's anti-war sentiments become obvious. Casually describing the thousands of dead sold... | [
"There was never anything so gallant, so spruce, so brilliant, and so\nwell disposed as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and\ncannon made music such as Hell itself had never heard. The cannons first\nof all laid flat about six thousand men on each side; the muskets swept\naway from this best of wor... |
1,876 | 19942_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Soon thereafter, Candide takes a walk through the town when he meets a "ghastly beggar" who reveals to his pupil that he is Pangloss. Candide is shocked and horrified to see his teacher in such a state, but immediately asks about his beloved Cunegonde. When Pangloss explains that she has been killed, Candide passes out... | [
"Candide, yet more moved with compassion than with horror, gave to this\nshocking beggar the two florins which he had received from the honest\nAnabaptist James. The spectre looked at him very earnestly, dropped a\nfew tears, and fell upon his neck. Candide recoiled in disgust.",
"\"Alas!\" said one wretch to the... |
1,877 | 19942_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Traveling to Lisbon on a business trip, Jacques brings along his two philosopher friends, Candide and Pangloss. A terrifying storm ravishes the sea during the boat trip, destroying the vessel and killing all but three of those on board-Candide, Pangloss, and a "brutal sailor" who survives at the expense of the kind Chr... | [
"Half dead of that inconceivable anguish which the rolling of a ship\nproduces, one-half of the passengers were not even sensible of the\ndanger. The other half shrieked and prayed. The sheets were rent, the\nmasts broken, the vessel gaped. Work who would, no one heard, no one\ncommanded. The Anabaptist being upon ... |
1,878 | 19942_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, Candide and Pangloss experience the auto-da-fe, a public ceremony intended to avert future disasters through a demonstration of contrition and self-degradation. This event, like the earthquake which preceded it, actually occurred in Lisbon during the summer of 1756. Also connected with Candide's auto-d... | [
"After the earthquake had destroyed three-fourths of Lisbon, the sages of\nthat country could think of no means more effectual to prevent utter\nruin than to give the people a beautiful _auto-da-fe_[6]; for it had\nbeen decided by the University of Coimbra, that the burning of a few\npeople alive by a slow fire, an... |
1,879 | 19942_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The strange old woman takes Candide to a shanty, where she clothes and feeds him, taking general care of him for a couple of days without the young philosopher even knowing her identity. Once he has recovered enough to see visitors, the woman leads him to a nearby house where he meets, of all people, Cunegonde. His lov... | [
"Candide did not take courage, but followed the old woman to a decayed\nhouse, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed\nhim a very neat little bed, with a suit of clothes hanging up, and left\nhim something to eat and drink.",
"\"Eat, drink, sleep,\" said she, \"and may our lady of Atocha,... |
1,880 | 19942_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 8 is Cunegonde's story-the account of her rape and her family's murder. Becoming the prisoner-of-war of a certain, "attractive" Bulgar captain, she lives in a sort of quasi-bondage for three months, at which time he trades her to a wealthy Jew named Don Issachar. When the Inquisitor sees Cunegonde at Mass, he i... | [
"\"I was in bed and fast asleep when it pleased God to send the Bulgarians\nto our delightful castle of Thunder-ten-Tronckh; they slew my father and\nbrother, and cut my mother in pieces. A tall Bulgarian, six feet high,\nperceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, began to ravish me;\nthis made me recover; I... |
1,881 | 19942_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Seeing what he believes to be another competitor for Cunegonde's love, the Jew attacks Candide, forcing the pupil of optimism to kill him with a sword. After Issachar's death, Candide wishes that Pangloss were there to give him advice, but settles for the opinion of the old woman in his stead. Before she can give her c... | [
"This Issachar was the most choleric Hebrew that had ever been seen in\nIsrael since the Captivity in Babylon.",
"\"What!\" said he, \"thou bitch of a Galilean, was not the Inquisitor\nenough for thee? Must this rascal also share with me?\"",
"In saying this he drew a long poniard which he always carried about ... |
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