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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
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A Sentinel

[from without].

Ventrebieu! Who goes there?

The Voice of Cyrano.

Bergerac.

The Sentinel

[who is on the redoubt].

Ventrebieu!
Who goes there?

Cyrano

[appearing at the top].

Bergerac, idiot!

[He comes down, Le Bret advances anxiously to meet him.]

Le Bret.

Heavens!

Cyrano

[making signs that he should not awake the others].

Hush!

Le Bret.

Wounded?

Cyrano.

Oh! you know it has become their custom to shoot at me every morning and to miss me.

Le Bret.

This passes all! To take letters at each day's dawn. To risk…