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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
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Christian.
Will it please you so?
—Give you such pleasure ?
Cyrano.
[madly].
It!...
[Then calmly, business-like.]
It would amuse me!
It is an enterprise to tempt a poet.
Will you complete me, and let me complete you?
You march victorious,—I go in your shadow;
Let me be wit for you, be you my beauty!
Christian.
The letter, that she waits for even now!
I never can . . .
Cyrano.
[taking out the letter he had written].
See! Here it is—your letter!
Christian.
What?
Cyrano.
Take it! Look, it wants but the address.
Christian.
But I ...
Cyrano.
Fear nothing. Send it. It will suit.
Christian.
But have you...?