Canuidus expatiated upon all its beauties^
^ I never knew anjr thing laid out ia fo bad



€hap.2^. TBE OPTIMIST, tjfi

a tafte," faid themafter; " we have nothing
but trifles, here- : butj a day or two hence,.
I HiaH have one laid out upon a more noble
plan.**^

When oor two- in<|ut(kiv«s h^d taken their
leave of his Excellency, " Now, Aire," faid
Candidus to- Martin, " you will confeis
that he is one of the happieft men upon earth,
for he k above every thing that he has^**
*• Do you not fee," faid Martin, " that he h
difgufted with every thing that he hasi
Plato has^ faid a long time ago, that the beft
fiomachs are not thofe which cad up all forts
of viduals." " But," faid Candidus, •« i»
not there a pleafure in criticifing upon every
thing? in perceiving defe«5ls where other
people fancy they fee beauties?" " That is
as much as to fay," replied Marttn,^ " that
there is a great pleafure in having no plear
iiire." " If this is the cafe," faid CANn^-
Bus, " no perfon will be fo happy as myfell,
-when I fee Mifs Cunegonda again." " We
fliould always hope for the beft," faid Martin*.
In the mean time days and weeks pafled
away; but no Cacambo was to be founds
And Candidus was fo immerfed in grie^
that he did not recolledb, that Paquetta and
brother Girofflee never fa much as once came
to x^luxji him ihaoks...
149 C A.N D I D U $: Or, Chap. »4.
CHAP. XXVI.
