READ STUDY GUIDE: Act II, scenes vii–xi |
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Act II, Scene xi
| Cyrano, Christian, the Gascons, the musketeer, Lise. |
| A CADET (half opening the door): |
 Naught here!. . .The silence of the grave! |
| I dare not look. . . |
| (He puts his head in): |
| Why?. . . |
| ALL THE CADETS (entering, and seeing Cyrano and Christian embracing): |
| Oh!. . . |
| A CADET: |
| This passes all! |
| (Consternation.) |
| THE MUSKETEER (mockingly): |
| Ho, ho!. . . |
| CARBON: |
| Our demon has become a saint? |
| Struck on one nostril—lo! he turns the other! |
| MUSKETEER: |
| Then we may speak about his nose, henceforth!. . . |
| (Calling to Lise, boastfully): |
| —Ah, Lise, see here! |
| (Sniffing ostentatiously): |
| O heavens!. . .what a stink!. . . |
| (Going up to Cyrano): |
| You, sir, without a doubt have sniffed it up! |
| —What is the smell I notice here? |
| CYRANO (cuffing his head): |
| Clove-heads. |
| (General delight. The cadets have found the old Cyrano again! They turn |
| somersaults.) |
| Curtain.: |
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