SparkNotes: Complete Text of Cyrano de Bergerac: Act II, Scene 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!. . .

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.)

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