1 "Yes, reverend Father," answered Candide.
2 "To plague us to death," answered Martin.
3 You answer me like a young man from Westphalia.
4 "It is but too true," answered Cunegonde, in tears.
5 He asked if they had any prisons, and they answered no.
6 "Yes, sir, that is my height," answered he, making a low bow.
7 "This concussion of the earth is no new thing," answered Pangloss.
8 The good woman made no answer; she returned in the evening, but brought no supper.
9 "I am waiting for my master, Mynheer Vanderdendur, the famous merchant," answered the negro.
10 We shall give a warm reception to the King of Spain's troops; I will answer for it that they shall be excommunicated and well beaten.
11 There can be no effect without a cause," modestly answered Candide; "the whole is necessarily concatenated and arranged for the best.
12 Ay, sure," answered Cacambo, "I was servant in the College of the Assumption, and am acquainted with the government of the good Fathers as well as I am with the streets of Cadiz.
13 Most of the company were chapmen and waggoners, all extremely polite; they asked Cacambo a few questions with the greatest circumspection, and answered his in the most obliging manner.
14 Astonished and delighted to hear my native language, and no less surprised at what this man said, I made answer that there were much greater misfortunes than that of which he complained.
15 He asked alms of several grave-looking people, who all answered him, that if he continued to follow this trade they would confine him to the house of correction, where he should be taught to get a living.
16 He is so deeply concerned in the affairs of this world," answered Martin, "that he may very well be in me, as well as in everybody else; but I own to you that when I cast an eye on this globe, or rather on this little ball, I cannot help thinking that God has abandoned it to some malignant being.
17 Pangloss made answer in these terms: "Oh, my dear Candide, you remember Paquette, that pretty wench who waited on our noble Baroness; in her arms I tasted the delights of paradise, which produced in me those hell torments with which you see me devoured; she was infected with them, she is perhaps dead of them."
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