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◇ XXIII. Candide And Martin Touched Upon The Coast Of England, And What They Saw There. ◇
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1. XXIII. Candide And Martin Touched Upon The Coast Of England, And What They Saw There.

 
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"Ah, Pangloss! Pangloss! Ah, Martin! Martin! Ah, my dear Cunegonde, what sort of a world is this?" said Candide on board the Dutch ship.
 
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"Something very foolish and abominable," said Martin.
 
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"You know England? Are they as foolish there as in France?"
 
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"It is another kind of folly," said Martin. "You know that these two nations are at war for a few acres of snow in Canada,[31] and that they spend over this beautiful war much more than Canada is worth. To tell you exactly, whether there are more people fit to send to a madhouse in one country than the other, is what my imperfect intelligence will not permit. I only know in general that the people we are going to see are very atrabilious."
 
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Talking thus they arrived at Portsmouth. The coast was lined with crowds of people, whose eyes were fixed on a fine man kneeling, with his eyes bandaged, on board one of the men of war in the harbour. Four soldiers stood opposite to this man; each of them fired three balls at his head, with all the calmness in the world; and the whole assembly went away very well satisfied.
 
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"What is all this?" said Candide; "and what demon is it that exercises his empire in this country?"
 
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He then asked who was that fine man who had been killed with so much ceremony. They answered, he was an Admiral.[32]
 
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"And why kill this Admiral?"
 
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"It is because he did not kill a sufficient number of men himself. He gave battle to a French Admiral; and it has been proved that he was not near enough to him."
 
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"But," replied Candide, "the French Admiral was as far from the English Admiral."
 
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"There is no doubt of it; but in this country it is found good, from time to time, to kill one Admiral to encourage the others."
 
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Candide was so shocked and bewildered by what he saw and heard, that he would not set foot on shore, and he made a bargain with the Dutch skipper (were he even to rob him like the Surinam captain) to conduct him without delay to Venice.
 
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The skipper was ready in two days. They coasted France; they passed in sight of Lisbon, and Candide trembled. They passed through the Straits, and entered the Mediterranean. At last they landed at Venice.
 
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"God be praised!" said Candide, embracing Martin. "It is here that I shall see again my beautiful Cunegonde. I trust Cacambo as myself. All is well, all will be well, all goes as well as possible."
 

 
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FOOTNOTES:
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[31] P. 122. This same curiously inept criticism of the war which cost France her American provinces occurs in Voltaire's Memoirs, wherein he says, "In 1756 England made a piratical war upon France for some acres of snow." See also his Précis du Siècle de Louis XV.
 
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[32] P. 123. Admiral Byng was shot on March 14, 1757.
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