Candide

9. During the auto da fé, Candide endures a public flogging, but later a compassionate “old
woman” takes him to a “lonely house” situated “about a quarter of a mile into the country” beyond Lisbon. There, his “conductress” introduces Candide to a “young lady” with a “veil.” Who is she? What arrangement does the she endure as a resident of the house? It involves the Grand Inquisitor and a Jewish (“Hebrew”; “Israelite”) merchant, Issachar, whose whose name occurs in the Book of Exodus, belonging to one of the sons of the Patriarch called Jacob or Israel