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CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Cyrano
[holding out the letter to her].
The bloodstains were his.
Roxane.
Why, then, that noble silence,—kept so long—
Broken to-day for the first time—why?
Cyrano.
Why?…
[Le Bret and Ragueneau enter running.]
SCENE VI
The Same. Le Bret and Ragueneau.
Le Bret.
What madness! Here? I knew it well!
Cyrano
[smiling and sitting up].
What now?
Le Bret.
He has brought his death by coming, Madame.
Roxane.
God!
Ah then! that faintness of a moment since…?
Cyrano.
Why, true! It interrupted the 'Gazette':
…Saturday, twenty-sixth, at dinner-time,
Assassination of De Bergerac.
[He takes off his hat; they see his head bandaged.]
