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cyrano de bergerac-第14部分

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rself; and this obedience   Will be by Heaven well recompensed。  Receive;   Fair lady; all assurance of respect;   From him who ever was; and still remains;   Your humble and obligedet cetera。'

THE FRIAR (with great delight):   O worthy lord!  I knew naught was to fear;   It could be but holy business!

ROXANE (to Christian; in a low voice):   Am I not apt at reading letters?

CHRISTIAN:   Hum!

ROXANE (aloud; with despair):   But this is horrible!

THE FRIAR (who has turned his lantern on Cyrano):   'Tis you?

CHRISTIAN:   'Tis I!

THE FRIAR (turning the light on to him; and as if a doubt struck him on seeing his beauty):   But。 。 。

ROXANE (quickly):   I have overlooked the postscriptsee:   'Give twenty pistoles for the Convent。'

THE FRIAR:   。 。 。Oh!   Most worthy lord! (To Roxane):   Submit you?

ROXANE (with a martyr's look):   I submit! (While Ragueneau opens the door; and Christian invites the friar to enter; she whispers to Cyrano):   Oh; keep De Guiche at bay!  He will be here!   Let him not enter till。 。 。

CYRANO:   I understand! (To the friar):   What time need you to tie the marriage…knot?

THE FRIAR:   A quarter of an hour。

CYRANO (pushing them all toward the house):   Go!  I stay。

ROXANE (to Christian):   Come!。 。 。

(They enter。)

CYRANO:   Now; how to detain De Guiche so long? (He jumps on the bench; climbs to the balcony by the wall):   Come!。 。 。up I go!。 。 。I have my plan!。 。 。 (The lutes begin to play a very sad air):   What; ho! (The tremolo grows more and more weird):   It is a man! ay! 'tis a man this time! (He is on the balcony; pulls his hat over his eyes; takes off his sword; wraps himself in his cloak; then leans over):   'Tis not too high! (He strides across the balcony; and drawing to him a long branch of one of the trees that are by the garden wall; he hangs on to it with both hands; ready to let himself fall):   I'll shake this atmosphere!



Scene 3。XI。

Cyrano; De Guiche。

DE GUICHE (who enters; masked; feeling his way in the dark):   What can that cursed Friar be about?

CYRANO:   The devil!。 。 。If he knows my voice! (Letting go with one hand; he pretends to turn an invisible key。  Solemnly):   Cric!  Crac!   Assume thou; Cyrano; to serve the turn;   The accent of thy native Bergerac!。 。 。

DE GUICHE (looking at the house):   'Tis there。  I see dim;this mask hinders me! (He is about to enter; when Cyrano leaps from the balcony; holding on to the branch; which bends; dropping him between the door and De Guiche; he pretends to fall heavily; as from a great height; and lies flat on the ground; motionless; as if stunned。  De Guiche starts back):   What's this? (When he looks up; the branch has sprung back into its place。  He sees only the sky; and is lost in amazement):   Where fell that man from?

CYRANO (sitting up; and speaking with a Gascon accent):   From the moon!

DE GUICHE:   From?。 。 。

CYRANO (in a dreamy voice):   What's o'clock?

DE GUICHE:   He's lost his mind; for sure!

CYRANO:   What hour?  What country this?  What month?  What day?

DE GUICHE:   But。 。 。

CYRANO:   I am stupefied!

DE GUICHE:   Sir!

CYRANO:   Like a bomb   I fell from the moon!

DE GUICHE (impatiently):   Come now!

CYRANO (rising; in a terrible voice):   I say;the moon!

DE GUICHE (recoiling):   Good; good! let it be so!。 。 。He's raving mad!

CYRANO (walking up to him):   I say from the moon!  I mean no metaphor!。 。 。

DE GUICHE:   But。 。 。

CYRANO:   Was't a hundred yearsa minute; since?   I cannot guess what time that fall embraced!   That I was in that saffron…colored ball?

DE GUICHE (shrugging his shoulders):   Good! let me pass!

CYRANO (intercepting him):   Where am I?  Tell the truth!   Fear not to tell!  Oh; spare me not!  Where? where?   Have I fallen like a shooting star?

DE GUICHE:   Morbleu!

CYRANO:   The fall was lightning…quick! no time to choose   Where I should fallI know not where it be!   Oh; tell me!  Is it on a moon or earth;   that my posterior weight has landed me?

DE GUICHE:   I tell you; Sir。 。 。

CYRANO (with a screech of terror; which makes De Guiche start back):   No?  Can it be?  I'm on   A planet where men have black faces?

DE GUICHE (putting a hand to his face):   What?

CYRANO (feigning great alarm):   Am I in Africa?  A native you?

DE GUICHE (who has remembered his mask):   This mask of mine。 。 。

CYRANO (pretending to be reassured):   In Venice? ha!or Rome?    DE GUICHE (trying to pass):   A lady waits。 。

CYRANO (quite reassured):   Oh…ho!  I am in Paris!

DE GUICHE (smiling in spite of himself):   The fool is comical!

CYRANO:   You laugh?

DE GUICHE:   I laugh;   But would get by!

CYRANO (beaming with joy):   I have shot back to Paris! (Quite at ease; laughing; dusting himself; bowing):   Comepardon meby the last water…spout;   Covered with ether;accident of travel!   My eyes still full of star…dust; and my spurs   Encumbered by the planets' filaments! (Picking something off his sleeve):   Ha! on my doublet?ah; a comet's hair!。 。 。

(He puffs as if to blow it away。)

DE GUICHE (beside himself):   Sir!。 。 。

CYRANO (just as he is about to pass; holds out his leg as if to show him something and stops him):   In my legthe calfthere is a tooth   Of the Great Bear; and; passing Neptune close;   I would avoid his trident's point; and fell;   Thus sitting; plump; right in the Scales!  My weight   Is marked; still registered; up there in heaven! (Hurriedly preventing De Guiche from passing; and detaining him by the button of his doublet):   I swear to you that if you squeezed my nose   It would spout milk!

DE GUICHE:   Milk?

CYRANO:   From the Milky Way!

DE GUICHE:   Oh; go to hell!

CYRANO (crossing his arms):   I fall; Sir; out of heaven!   Now; would you credit it; that as I fell   I saw that Sirius wears a nightcap?  True! (Confidentially):   The other Bear is still too small to bite。 (Laughing):   I went through the Lyre; but I snapped a cord; (Grandiloquent):   I mean to write the whole thing in a book;   The small gold stars; that; wrapped up in my cloak;   I carried safe away at no small risks;   Will serve for asterisks i' the printed page!

DE GUICHE:   Come; make an end!  I want。 。 。

CYRANO:   Oh…ho!  You are sly!

DE GUICHE:   Sir!

CYRANO:   You would worm all out of me!the way   The moon is made; and if men breathe and live   In its rotund cucurbita?

DE GUICHE (angrily):   No; no!   I want。 。 。

CYRANO:   Ha; ha!to know how I got up?   Hark; it was by a method all my own。

DE GUICHE (wearied):   He's mad!

CYRANO(contemptuously):   No! not for me the stupid eagle   Of Regiomontanus; nor the timid   Pigeon of Archytasneither of those!

DE GUICHE:   Ay; 'tis a fool!  But 'tis a learned fool!

CYRANO:   No imitator I of other men! (De Guiche has succeeded in getting by; and goes toward Roxane's door。  Cyrano follows him; ready to stop him by force):   Six novel methods; all; this brain invented!

DE GUICHE (turning round):   Six?

CYRANO (volubly):   First; with body naked as your hand;   Festooned about with crystal flacons; full   O' th' tears the early morning dew distils;   My body to the sun's fierce rays exposed   To let it suck me up; as 't sucks the dew!    DE GUICHE (surprised; making one step toward Cyrano):   Ah! that makes one!

CYRANO (stepping back; and enticing him further away):   And then; the second way;   To generate windfor my impetus   To rarefy air; in a cedar case;   By mirrors placed icosahedron…wise。

DE GUICHE (making another step):   Two!

CYRANO (still stepping backward):   Orfor I have some mechanic skill   To make a grasshopper; with springs of steel;   And launch myself by quick succeeding fires   Saltpeter…fed to the stars' pastures blue!

DE GUICHE (unconsciously following him and counting on his fingers):   Three!

CYRANO:   Or (since fumes have property to mount)   To charge a globe with fumes; sufficiently   To carry me aloft!

DE GUICHE (same play; more and more astonished):   Well; that makes four!

CYRANO:   Or smear myself with marrow from a bull;   Since; at the lowest point of Zodiac;   Phoebus well loves to suck that marrow up!

DE GUICHE (amazed):   Five!

CYRANO (who; while speaking; had drawn him to the other side of the square near a bench):   Sitting on an iron platformthence   To throw a magnet in the air。  This is   A method well conceivedthe magnet flown;   Infallibly the iron will pursue:   Then quick! relaunch your magnet; and you thus   Can mount and mount unmeasured distances!

DE GUICHE:   Here are six excellent expedients!   Which of the six chose you?

CYRANO:   Why; none!a seventh!

DE GUICHE:   Astonishing!  What was it?

CYRANO:   I'll recount。

DE GUICHE:   This wild eccentric becomes interesting!

CYRANO (making a noise like the waves; with weird gestures):   Houuh!  Houuh!

DE GUICHE:   Well。

CYRANO:   You have guessed?

DE GUICHE:   Not I!

CYRANO:   The tide!   I' th' witching hour when the moon woos the wave;   I laid me; fresh from a sea…bath; on the shore   And; failing not to put head foremostfor   The hair holds the sea…water in its mesh   I rose in air; straight! straight! like angel's flight;   And mounted; mounted; gently; effortless;。 。 。   When lo! a sudden shock!  Then。 。 。

DE GUICHE (overcome by curiosity; sitting down on the bench):   Then?

CYRANO:   Oh! then。 。 。 (Suddenly returning to his natural voice):   The quarter's goneI'll hinder you no more:   The marriage…vows are made。

DE GUICHE (springing up):   What?  Am I mad?   That voice? (The house…door opens。  Lackeys appear carrying lighted candelabra。  Light。 Cyrano gracefully uncovers):   That noseCyrano?

CYRANO (bowing):   Cyrano。   While we were chatting; they have plighted troth。

DE GUICHE:   Who? (He turns round。  Tableau。  Behind the lackeys appear Roxane and Christian; holding each other by the hand。  The friar follows them; smiling。  Ragueneau also holds a candlestick。  The duenna closes the rear; bewildered; having made a hasty toilet):   Heavens!



Scene 3。XII。

The same。  Roxane; Christian; the friar; Ragueneau; lackeys; the duenna。

DE GUICHE (to Roxane):   You? (Recognizing Christian; in amazement):   He? (Bowing; with admiratio
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