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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
15
Lignière.
Ugh!
The Buffet-Girl.
Milk?
Lignière.
Pah!
The Buffet-Girl.
Rivesalte?
Lignière.
Stay. [To Christian.] I will remain a while.—Let me taste this rivesalte.
[He sits by the buffet; the girl pours some out for him.]
Cries
[from all the audience, at the entrance of a plump little man, joyously excited].
Ah! Ragueneau!
Lignière
[to Christian].
'Tis the famous tavern-keeper Ragueneau.
Ragueneau
[dressed in the Sunday clothes of a pastry-cook, going up quickly to Lignière].
Sir, have you seen Monsieur de Cyrano?
Lignière
[introducing him to Christian].
The pastrycook of the actors and the poets!