Literature/Edmond Rostand/Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand, 1897

Act III: Roxane’s KissScene VIII

Cyrano, Christian.

Christian

Oh! win for me that kiss…

Cyrano

No!

Christian

Soon or late!…

Cyrano

’Tis true! The moment of intoxication—Of madness,—when your mouths are sure to meetThanks to your fair mustache—and her rose lips!

To himself

I’d fainer it should come thanks to…

A sound of shutters reopening. Christian goes in again under the balcony.