Cyrano de Bergerac (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Edmond Rostand

Author:Edmond Rostand
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barnes&Noble

SCENE X

Cyrano, Christian

CYRANO Embrace me!

CHRISTIAN Monsieur ...

CYRANO Brave fellow.

CHRISTIAN But what does this ...

CYRANO Very brave fellow. I wish you to.

CHRISTIAN Will you tell me? ...

CYRANO Embrace me, I am her brother.

CHRISTIAN Whose?

CYRANO Hers!

CHRISTIAN What do you mean?

CYRANO Roxane’s!

CHRISTIAN [running to him] Heavens! You, her brother?

CYRANO Or the same thing: her first cousin.

CHRISTIAN And she has...

CYRANO Told me everything!

CHRISTIAN Does she love me?

CYRANO Perhaps!

CHRISTIAN [seizing his hands] How happy I am, Monsieur, to make your acquaintance! ...

CYRANO That is what I call a sudden sentiment!

CHRISTIAN Forgive me! ...

CYRANO [looking at him, laying his hand upon his shoulder] It is true that he is handsome, the rascal!

CHRISTIAN If you but knew, Monsieur, how greatly I admire you!...

CYRANO But all those noses which you...

CHRISTIAN I take them back!

CYRANO Roxane expects a letter to-night...

CHRISTIAN Alas!

CYRANO What is the matter?

CHRISTIAN I am lost if I cease to be dumb!

CYRANO How is that?

CHRISTIAN Alas! I am such a dunce that I could kill myself for shame!

CYRANO But, no ... no.... You are surely not a dunce, if you believe you are! Besides, you scarcely attacked me like a dunce.

CHRISTIAN Oh, it is easy to find words in mounting to the assault! Indeed, I own to a certain cheap military readiness, but when I am before women, I have not a word to say.... Yet their eyes, when I pass by, express a kindness toward me ...

CYRANO And do their hearts not express the same when you stop beside them?

CHRISTIAN No!... for I am of those—I recognize it, and am dismayed! —who do not know how to talk of love.

CYRANO Tiens! . . . It seems to me that if Nature had taken more pains with my shape, I should have been of those who do know how to talk of it.

CHRISTIAN Oh, to be able to express things gracefully!

CYRANO Oh, to be a graceful little figure of a passing mousquetaire!

CHRISTIAN Roxane is a precieuse, ... 49 there is no chance but that I shall be a disillusion to Roxane!

CYRANO [looking at CHRISTIAN] If I had, to express my soul, such an interpreter! ...

CHRISTIAN [desperately] I ought to have eloquence! ...

CYRANO [abruptly] Eloquence I will lend you! ... And you, to me, shall lend all-conquering physical charm... and between us we will compose a hero of romance!

CHRISTIAN What?

CYRANO Should you be able to say, as your own, things which I day by day would teach you?

CHRISTIAN You are suggesting? ...

CYRANO Roxane shall not have disillusions! Tell me, shall we win her heart, we two as one? will you submit to feel, transmitted from my leather doublet into your doublet stitched with silk, the soul I wish to share?

CHRISTIAN But Cyrano! ...

CYRANO Christian, will you?

CHRISTIAN You frighten me!

CYRANO Since you fear, left to yourself, to chill her heart, will you consent,—and soon it will take fire, I vouch for it!—to contribute your lips to my phrases?

CHRISTIAN Your eyes shine! ...

CYRANO Will you?

CHRISTIAN What, would it please you so much?

CYRANO [with rapture] It would... [Remembering, and confining himself to expressing an artistic pleasure] .

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