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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
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Lignière.

Ugh!

The Buffet-Girl.

Milk?

Lignière.

Pah!

The Buffet-Girl.

Rivesalte?

Lignière.

Stay. [To Christian.] I will remain a while.—Let me taste this rivesalte.

[He sits by the buffet; the girl pours some out for him.]

Cries

[from all the audience, at the entrance of a plump little man, joyously excited].

Ah! Ragueneau!

Lignière

[to Christian].

'Tis the famous tavern-keeper Ragueneau.

Ragueneau

[dressed in the Sunday clothes of a pastry-cook, going up quickly to Lignière].

Sir, have you seen Monsieur de Cyrano?

Lignière

[introducing him to Christian].

The pastrycook of the actors and the poets!