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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
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Christian.

Will it please you so?

—Give you such pleasure ?

Cyrano.

[madly].

It!...

[Then calmly, business-like.]

It would amuse me!

It is an enterprise to tempt a poet.
Will you complete me, and let me complete you?
You march victorious,—I go in your shadow;
Let me be wit for you, be you my beauty!

Christian.

The letter, that she waits for even now!
I never can . . .

Cyrano.

[taking out the letter he had written].

See! Here it is—your letter!

Christian.

What?

Cyrano.

Take it! Look, it wants but the address.

Christian.

But I ...

Cyrano.

Fear nothing. Send it. It will suit.

Christian.

But have you...?