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The abbé arrives with a squad of officers and orders Martin and Candide arrested as “suspicious strangers.” Candide bribes an officer with diamonds, and the officer lets them go. The officer’s brother, after being given more diamonds, puts Candide and Martin on a ship bound for England.
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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 bathing naked with a young Turkish man and sent to the galleys.
Candide, advised by Martin and impatient to see the real Cunegonde, rather than expose himself before a court of justice, proposed to the officer to give him three small diamonds, each worth about three thousand pistoles.
Candide weeps over her hand and leaves her many diamonds and a bag of gold. Suddenly an officer enters the room, followed by Périgord, and arrests Candide and Martin as “suspicious foreigners.”
At this tender moment, two officers appeared and arrested Candide and Martin on suspicion. "This isn't the way travelers are treated in Eldorado," said Candide. And Martin declared that he was more a Manichean than ever.
Chapter 21 Summary. “Candide and Martin continue reasoning as they approach the coast of France”. At last the coast of France is in sight, and Candide asks Martin if he has ever been to France.
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Chapter 20 Summary. “What happened to Candide and Martin at sea”. Candide and Martin, the old scholar, set sail for Bordeaux. Both men have lived through and seen much suffering, so even if...