CYRANO DE BERGERAC
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A Sister
[coming to the steps].
Monsieur de Bergerac.
SCENE V
Roxane
[without turning round].
What was I saying?…
[She embroiders. Cyrano, very pale, his hat pulled down over his eyes, appears. The Sister who had announced him retires. He descends the steps slowly, with a visible difficulty in holding himself upright, bearing heavily on his cane. Roxane still works at her tapestry.]
Time has dimmed the tints…
How harmonise them now?
[To Cyrano, with playful reproach.]
For the first time
Late!—For the first time, all these fourteen years!
Cyrano
[who has succeeded in reaching the chair, and has seated himself in a lively voice, which is in great contrast with his pale face].
Ay! It is villainous! I raged—was stayed…
Roxane.
By?…