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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
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Lignière.
Have a care! It is he who will kill you [showing him Roxane by a look]. Stay where you are—she is looking at you.
Christian.
It is true!
[He stands looking at her. The group of pickpockets, seeing him thus, head in air and open-mouthed, draw near to him.]
Lignière.
'Tis I who am going. I am athirst! And they expect me—in the taverns!
[He goes out, reeling.]
Le Bret
[who has been all round the hall, coming back to Ragueneau reassured].
No sign of Cyrano.
Ragueneau
[incredulously].
All the same…
Le Bret.
A hope is left to me—that he has not seen the playbill!
The Audience.
Begin, begin!
