Act II, Scene v | CYRANO: |  Ah! if I see but the faint glimmer of hope, then I draw out my letter! | | (Roxane, masked, followed by the duenna, appears at the glass pane of the | | door. He opens quickly): | | Enter!. . . | | (Walking up to the duenna): | | Two words with you, Duenna. |
| CYRANO: | | Are you fond of sweet things? |
| THE DUENNA: | | Ay, I could eat myself sick on them! |
| CYRANO (catching up some of the paper bags from the counter): | | Good. See you these two sonnets of Monsieur Beuserade. . . |
| THE DUENNA: | | Hey? |
| CYRANO: | | . . .Which I fill for you with cream cakes! |
| THE DUENNA (changing her expression): | | Ha. |
| CYRANO: | | What say you to the cake they call a little puff? |
| THE DUENNA: | | If made with cream, Sir, I love them passing well. |
| CYRANO: | | Here I plunge six for your eating into the bosom of a poem by Saint Amant! | | And in these verses of Chapelain I glide a lighter morsel. Stay, love you hot | | cakes? |
| THE DUENNA: | | Ay, to the core of my heart! |
| CYRANO (filling her arms with the bags): | | Pleasure me then; go eat them all in the street. |
| THE DUENNA: | | But. . . |
| CYRANO (pushing her out): | | And come not back till the very last crumb be eaten! |
| (He shuts the door, comes down toward Roxane, and, uncovering, stands at a | | respectful distance from her.) |
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