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me;   Under my window you revealed your soul   Ah! ever since I have adored you!  Now   Your letters all this whole month long!meseemed   As if I heard that voice so tender; true;   Sheltering; close!  Thy fault; I say!  It drew me;   The voice o' th' night!  Oh! wise Penelope   Would ne'er have stayed to broider on her hearthstone;   If her Ulysses could have writ such letters!   But would have cast away her silken bobbins;   And fled to join him; mad for love as Helen!

CHRISTIAN:   But。 。 。

ROXANE:   I read; read againgrew faint for love;   I was thine utterly。  Each separate page   Was like a fluttering flower…petal; loosed   From your own soul; and wafted thus to mine。   Imprinted in each burning word was love   Sincere; all…powerful。 。 。

CHRISTIAN:   A love sincere!   Can that be felt; Roxane!

ROXANE:   Ay; that it can!

CHRISTIAN:   You come。 。 。?

ROXANE:   O; Christian; my true lord; I come   (Were I to throw myself; here; at your knees;   You would raise mebut 'tis my soul I lay   At your feetyou can raise it nevermore!)   I come to crave your pardon。  (Ay; 'tis time   To sue for pardon; now that death may come!)   For the insult done to you when; frivolous;   At first I loved you only for your face!

CHRISTIAN (horror…stricken):   Roxane!

ROXANE:   And later; loveless frivolous   Like a bird that spreads its wings; but can not fly   Arrested by your beauty; by your soul   Drawn closeI loved for both at once!

CHRISTIAN:   And now?

ROXANE:   Ah! you yourself have triumphed o'er yourself;   And now; I love you only for your soul!

CHRISTIAN (stepping backward):   Roxane!

ROXANE:   Be happy。  To be loved for beauty   A poor disguise that time so soon wears threadbare   Must be to noble soulsto souls aspiring   A torture。  Your dear thoughts have now effaced   That beauty that so won me at the outset。   Now I see clearerand I no more see it!

CHRISTIAN:   Oh!。 。 。

ROXANE:   You are doubtful of such victory?

CHRISTIAN (pained):   Roxane!

ROXANE:   I see you cannot yet believe it。   Such love。 。 。?

CHRISTIAN:   I do not ask such love as that!   I would be loved more simply; for。 。 。

ROXANE:   For that   Which they have all in turns loved in thee?   Shame!   Oh! be loved henceforth in a better way!

CHRISTIAN:   No! the first love was best!

ROXANE:   Ah! how you err!   'Tis now that I love bestlove well!  'Tis that   Which is thy true self; see!that I adore!   Were your brilliance dimmed。 。 。

CHRISTIAN:   Hush!

ROXANE:   I should love still!   Ay; if your beauty should to…day depart。 。 。

CHRISTIAN:   Say not so!

ROXANE:   Ay; I say it!

CHRISTIAN:   Ugly?  How?

ROXANE:   Ugly!  I swear I'd love you still!

CHRISTIAN:   My God!

ROXANE:   Are you content at last?

CHRISTIAN (in a choked voice):   Ay!。 。 。

ROXANE:   What is wrong?

CHRISTIAN (gently pushing her away):   Nothing。 。 。I have two words to say:one second。 。 。

ROXANE:   But?。 。 。

CHRISTIAN (pointing to the cadets):   Those poor fellows; shortly doomed to death;   My love deprives them of the sight of you:   Go;speak to themsmile on them ere they die!

ROXANE (deeply affected):   Dear Christian!。 。 。

(She goes up to the cadets; who respectfully crowd round her。)



Scene 4。IX。

Christian; Cyrano。  At back Roxane talking to Carbon and some cadets。

CHRISTIAN (calling toward Cyrano's tent):   Cyrano!

CYRANO (reappearing; fully armed):   What?  Why so pale?

CHRISTIAN:   She does not love me!

CYRANO:   What?

CHRISTIAN:   'Tis you she loves!

CYRANO:   No!

CHRISTIAN:   For she loves me only for my soul!

CYRANO:   Truly?

CHRISTIAN:   Yes!  Thusyou see; that soul is you;。 。 。   Therefore; 'tis you she loves!And youlove her!

CYRANO:   I?

CHRISTIAN:   Oh; I know it!

CYRANO:   Ay; 'tis true!

CHRISTIAN:   You love   To madness!

CYRANO:   Ay! and worse!

CHRISTIAN:   Then tell her so!

CYRANO:   No!

CHRISTIAN:   And why not?

CYRANO:   Look at my face!be answered!

CHRISTIAN:   She'd love mewere I ugly。

CYRANO:   Said she so?

CHRISTIAN:   Ay! in those words!

CYRANO:   I'm glad she told you that!   But pooh!believe it not!  I am well pleased   She thought to tell you。  Take it not for truth。   Never grow ugly:she'd reproach me then!

CHRISTIAN:   That I intend discovering!

CYRANO:   No! I beg!

CHRISTIAN:   Ay! she shall choose between us!Tell her all!

CYRANO:   No! no!  I will not have it!  Spare me this!

CHRISTIAN:   Because my face is haply fair; shall I   Destroy your happiness?  'Twere too unjust!

CYRANO:   And I;because by Nature's freak I have   The gift to sayall that perchance you feel。   Shall I be fatal to your happiness?

CHRISTIAN:   Tell all!

CYRANO:   It is ill done to tempt me thus!

CHRISTIAN:   Too long I've borne about within myself   A rival to myselfI'll make an end!

CYRANO:   Christian!

CHRISTIAN:   Or union; without witnesssecret   Clandestinecan be easily dissolved   If we survive。

CYRANO:   My God!he still persists!

CHRISTIAN:   I will be loved myselfor not at all!   I'll go see what they dothere; at the end   Of the post:  speak to her; and then let her choose   One of us two!

CYRANO:   It will be you。

CHRISTIAN:   Pray God! (He calls):   Roxane!

CYRANO:   No! no!

ROXANE (coming up quickly):   What?

CHRISTIAN:   Cyrano has things   Important for your ear。 。 。

(She hastens to Cyrano。  Christian goes out。)



Scene 4。X。

Roxane; Cyrano。  Then Le Bret; Carbon de Castel…Jaloux; the cadets; Ragueneau; De Guiche; etc。

ROXANE:   Important; how?

CYRANO (in despair。 to Roxane):   He's gone!  'Tis naught!Oh; you know how he sees   Importance in a trifle!

ROXANE (warmly):   Did he doubt   Of what I said?Ah; yes; I saw he doubted!

CYRANO (taking her hand):   But are you sure you told him all the truth?

ROXANE:   Yes; I would love him were he。 。 。

(She hesitates。)

CYRANO:   Does that word   Embarrass you before my face; Roxane?

ROXANE:   I。 。 。

CYRANO (smiling sadly):   'Twill not hurt me!  Say it!  If he were   Ugly!。 。 。

ROXANE:   Yes; ugly! (Musket report outside):   Hark!  I hear a shot!

CYRANO (ardently):   Hideous!

ROXANE:   Hideous! yes!

CYRANO:   Disfigured。

ROXANE:   Ay!

CYRANO:   Grotesque?

ROXANE:   He could not be grotesque to me!

CYRANO:   You'd love the same?。 。 。

ROXANE:   The samenay; even more!

CYRANO (losing command over himselfaside):   My God! it's true; perchance; love waits me there! (To Roxane):   I。 。 。Roxane。 。 。listen。 。 。

LE BRET (entering hurriedlyto Cyrano):   Cyrano!

CYRANO (turning round):   What?

LE BRET:   Hush!

(He whispers something to him。)

CYRANO (letting go Roxane's hand and exclaiming):   Ah; God!

ROXANE:   What is it?

CYRANO (to himselfstunned):   All is over now。

(Renewed reports。)

ROXANE:   What is the matter?  Hark! another shot!

(She goes up to look outside。)

CYRANO:   It is too late; now I can never tell!

ROXANE (trying to rush out):   What has chanced?

CYRANO (rushing to stop her):   Nothing!

(Some cadets enter; trying to hide something they are carrying; and close round it to prevent Roxane approaching。)

ROXANE:   And those men? (Cyrano draws her away):   What were you just about to say before。 。 。?

CYRANO:   What was I saying?  Nothing now; I swear! (Solemnly):   I swear that Christian's soul; his nature; were。 。 。 (Hastily correcting himself):   Nay; that they are; the noblest; greatest。 。 。

ROXANE:   Were? (With a loud scream):   Oh!

(She rushes up; pushing every one aside。)

CYRANO:   All is over now!

ROXANE (seeing Christian lying on the ground; wrapped in his cloak):   O Christian!

LE BRET (to Cyrano):   Struck by first shot of the enemy!

(Roxane flings herself down by Christian。  Fresh reports of cannonclash of armsclamorbeating of drums。)

CARBON (with sword in the air):   O come!  Your muskets。

(Followed by the cadets; he passes to the other side of the ramparts。)

ROXANE:   Christian!

THE VOICE OF CARBON (from the other side):   Ho! make haste!

ROXANE:   Christian!

CARBON:   FORM LINE!

ROXANE:   Christian!

CARBON:   HANDLE YOUR MATCH!

(Ragueneau rushes up; brin

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