Script entitled “As Long As I Live”
Candide Chapter 15
Act 15 Scene 3

Characters: Candide and The Jesuit Baron of Thunder-ten- tronckh

[Jesuit hugging Candide]

Jesuit: Candide, my brother, my deliverer. Thank you, I still can’t believe my adorable sister is alive.

[Release from hugging and take a seat at the table]

Jesuit: Perhaps we should enter Buenos Aires together as victors, and rescue my sister Cunégonde. Agreed?

Candide: Sure. That is all I could ever wish for, as I was intending to marry her and hope to do so still.

[Angry Jesuit rise to his feet while shaking his head]

Jesuit: What-What-What an extraordinary piece of insolence! So you would have the effrontery to marry my sister, who has seventy-two quartering on her coats of arms!

[Jesuit sighs]

Jesuit: I consider it highly presumptuous of you to dare speak to me with such rash intention.

[Shock and Confuse Candide also rise to his feet]

Candide: No offense Reverend Father, but all the quartering in the world make no difference; In fact, I was the one who rescues your sister from the arms of a Jew and an Inquisitor; she has certain obligations towards me, and she wishes to marry me.

[Candide slaps his hand on the table]

Candide: As long as I live, I shall marry her.

[Angry Jesuit draws his sword and plunges it up to the hilt in Candide’s belly]

Jesuit: And as long as I live, you shall never.

[As he withdraws his sword]

Jesuit: It is to the best of my world.

[Jesuit exits the room]