Candide following the advice of his friend Martin, and burning with impatience to see the real Miss Cunegund, rather than be obliged to appear at a court of justice, proposed to the officer to make him a present of three small diamonds, each of them worth three thousand pistoles.
Por no exponerse á tener que lidiar con la justicia, y con el hipo que tenia de ver á la verdadera Cunegunda, Candido, por consejo de Maitin, ofreció al alguacil tres diamantillos de tres mil duros cada uno.