By your exact Description, Sir, you must doubtless have seen her, said the Eunuch, almost out of Breath. Zadig proceeded to give the specific details of the dog: “She has had Puppies too lately she’s a little lame with her left Fore-foot, and has long Ears.
One day some officials of the king and queen came to the area and asked Zadig whether he saw the queen’s dog or not. He moved to a country house near the Euphrates and spent his time pursuing mathematics (one of the values he’s interested in is how many inches of water go under the bridge in a second). Zadig, disappointed in her to some degree, decided to divorce her after their honeymoon, as he found her to be termagant. Azora, hearing this, went to the coffin with Zadig’s “body” (he was pretending to be dead, of course) and almost cut off his nose, as she thought him dead. After she mourned for a while, she became closer to Cador, and he pretended to be sick and said that only the nose of a dead man can better his health. That is, when Cador went to the countryside and was returning, Cador told her that Zadig had died suddenly and was going to be buried (to test her loyalty to him). A friend of Zadig named Cador wanted to marry his wife and used trickery to do so. “At last, however, by Dint of Reflection, he got the better of his Distemper and the Acuteness of the Pain he underwent, in some Measure, contributed towards his Consolation.” After the incident, he began courting Azora, the daughter of very rich parents, and eventually married her. When Zadig learned the news, he was heartbroken and underwent months of emotional agony and physical sickness. Due to his partially ruined appearance and the testimony of a doctor that he would lose his right eye, Semira left Zadig and decided to marry Orcan. She defended herself fiercely but was wounded, and when Zadig came to rescue her he succeeded in causing the kidnappers and assassins to flee, but in the process, an arrow pierced his right eye.
He wanted to marry a woman named Semira, but a nephew of the Minister of State, Orcan, who believed himself more qualified to marry her, tried to take her away from him. Zadig was also handsome and kind, causing Voltaire to describe that few were ever like him, seeing how he was the best person in Babylon. For the last point, Zadig believed that the year lasted twelve months and that the Earth rotates around the sun at a time where few thought those ideas were true. The book begins with Voltaire’s description of Zadig: he was born in Babylon, was extremely intelligent, came from a rich family, wasn’t arrogant, never insulted anyone, was generous, and was well ahead of his time.
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