READ STUDY GUIDE: Act V, scenes i-vi |
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Act V, Scene iii
| Le Bret, Ragueneau. |
| RAGUENEAU: |
 Since you are here, 'tis best she should not know! |
| I was going to your friend just now—was but |
| A few steps from the house, when I saw him |
| Go out. I hurried to him. Saw him turn |
| The corner. . .suddenly, from out a window |
| Where he was passing—was it chance?. . .may be! |
| A lackey let fall a large piece of wood. |
| LE BRET: |
| Cowards! O Cyrano! |
| RAGUENEAU: |
| I ran—I saw. . . |
| LE BRET: |
| 'Tis hideous! |
| RAGUENEAU: |
| Saw our poet, Sir—our friend— |
| Struck to the ground—a large wound in his head! |
| LE BRET: |
| He's dead? |
| RAGUENEAU: |
| No—but—I bore him to his room. . . |
| Ah! his room! What a thing to see!—that garret! |
| LE BRET: |
| He suffers? |
| RAGUENEAU: |
| No, his consciousness has flown. |
| LE BRET: |
| Saw you a doctor? |
| RAGUENEAU: |
| One was kind—he came. |
| LE BRET: |
| My poor Cyrano!—We must not tell this |
| To Roxane suddenly.—What said this leech?— |
| RAGUENEAU: |
| Said,—what, I know not—fever, meningitis!— |
| Ah! could you see him—all his head bound up!— |
| But let us haste!—There's no one by his bed!— |
| And if he try to rise, Sir, he might die! |
| LE BRET (dragging him toward the right): |
| Come! Through the chapel! 'Tis the quickest way! |
| ROXANE (appearing on the steps, and seeing Le Bret go away by the colonnade |
| leading to the chapel door): |
| Monsieur le Bret! |
| (Le Bret and Ragueneau disappear without answering): |
| Le Bret goes—when I call! |
| 'Tis some new trouble of good Ragueneau's. |
| (She descends the steps.) |
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