1 "Sell one of the horses," replied the old woman.
2 "Take off that veil," said the old woman to Candide.
3 It is not my hand you must kiss," said the old woman; "I shall be back to-morrow.
4 If you had," said the old woman, "you would acknowledge that it is far more terrible than an earthquake.
5 Cunegonde asked a quarter of an hour to consider of it, to consult the old woman, and to take her resolution.
6 Candide, amazed at all he had suffered and still more with the charity of the old woman, wished to kiss her hand.
7 Candide, Cunegonde, and the old woman, having passed through Lucena, Chillas, and Lebrixa, arrived at length at Cadiz.
8 Immediately Candide saddled the three horses, and Cunegonde, the old woman and he, travelled thirty miles at a stretch.
9 This speech having raised extreme curiosity in the minds of Cunegonde and Candide, the old woman spoke to them as follows.
10 The beautiful Cunegonde having heard the old woman's history, paid her all the civilities due to a person of her rank and merit.
11 He entered, and saw the whipped Candide, sword in hand, a dead man upon the floor, Cunegonde aghast, and the old woman giving counsel.
12 Cunegonde, Captain Candide, and the old woman, waited on the Governor, Don Fernando d'Ibaraa, y Figueora, y Mascarenes, y Lampourdos, y Souza.
13 Candide, Cunegonde, and the old woman, had now reached the little town of Avacena in the midst of the mountains of the Sierra Morena, and were speaking as follows in a public inn.
14 She likewise accepted her proposal, and engaged all the passengers, one after the other, to relate their adventures; and then both she and Candide allowed that the old woman was in the right.
15 The next morning the old woman brought him his breakfast, looked at his back, and rubbed it herself with another ointment: in like manner she brought him his dinner; and at night she returned with his supper.
16 Candide did not take courage, but followed the old woman to a decayed house, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed him a very neat little bed, with a suit of clothes hanging up, and left him something to eat and drink.
17 In saying this he drew a long poniard which he always carried about him; and not imagining that his adversary had any arms he threw himself upon Candide: but our honest Westphalian had received a handsome sword from the old woman along with the suit of clothes.
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