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Read Ebook: Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand Edmond Guillemard Mary F Translator Thomas Gladys Translator
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Ebook has 2211 lines and 37748 words, and 45 pages
THE BURGHER: Master Balthazar Baro. It is a play!. . .
THE PICKPOCKET : Have a care, above all, of the lace knee-ruffles--cut them off!
A SPECTATOR : I was up there, the first night of the 'Cid.'
THE PICKPOCKET : Thus for watches--
THE BURGHER : Ah! You shall presently see some renowned actors. . .
THE PICKPOCKET : Thus for handkerchiefs--
THE BURGHER: Montfleury. . .
SOME ONE : Light up, below there!
THE BURGHER: . . .Bellerose, L'Epy, La Beaupre, Jodelet!
A PAGE : Here comes the buffet-girl!
THE BUFFET-GIRL : Oranges, milk, raspberry-water, cedar bitters!
A FALSETTO VOICE: Make place, brutes!
A LACKEY : The Marquises!--in the pit?. . .
ANOTHER LACKEY: Oh! only for a minute or two!
A MARQUIS : What now! So we make our entrance like a pack of woolen-drapers! Peaceably, without disturbing the folk, or treading on their toes!--Oh, fie! Fie! : Cuigy! Brissaille!
CUIGY: True to our word!. . .Troth, we are here before the candles are lit.
THE MARQUIS: Ay, indeed! Enough! I am of an ill humor.
ANOTHER: Nay, nay, Marquis! see, for your consolation, they are coming to light up!
ALL THE AUDIENCE : Ah!. . .
The same. Christian, Ligni?re, then Ragueneau and Le Bret.
CUIGY: Ligni?re!
BRISSAILLE : Not drunk as yet?
LIGNI?RE : I may introduce you? : Baron de Neuvillette.
THE AUDIENCE : Ah!
CUIGY : 'Tis a pretty fellow!
FIRST MARQUIS : Pooh!
LIGNI?RE : My lords De Cuigy. De Brissaille. . .
CHRISTIAN : Delighted!. . .
FIRST MARQUIS : He is not ill to look at, but certes, he is not costumed in the latest mode.
LIGNI?RE : This gentleman comes from Touraine.
CHRISTIAN: Yes, I have scarce been twenty days in Paris; tomorrow I join the Guards, in the Cadets.
FIRST MARQUIS : There is the wife of the Chief-Justice.
THE BUFFET-GIRL: Oranges, milk. . .
THE VIOLINISTS : La--la--
CUIGY : 'Tis crowded.
CHRISTIAN: Yes, indeed.
FIRST MARQUIS: All the great world!
SECOND MARQUIS: Madame de Guemenee.
CUIGY: Madame de Bois-Dauphin.
FIRST MARQUIS: Adored by us all!
BRISSAILLE: Madame de Chavigny. . .
SECOND MARQUIS: Who sports with our poor hearts!. . .
LIGNI?RE: Ha! so Monsieur de Corneille has come back from Rouen!
THE YOUNG MAN : Is the Academy here?
THE BURGHER: Oh, ay, I see several of them. There is Boudu, Boissat, and Cureau de la Chambre, Porcheres, Colomby, Bourzeys, Bourdon, Arbaud. . .all names that will live! 'Tis fine!
FIRST MARQUIS: Attention! Here come our precieuses; Barthenoide, Urimedonte, Cassandace, Felixerie. . .
SECOND MARQUIS: Ah! How exquisite their fancy names are! Do you know them all, Marquis?
FIRST MARQUIS: Ay, Marquis, I do, every one!
LIGNI?RE : Friend, I but came here to give you pleasure. The lady comes not. I will betake me again to my pet vice.
CHRISTIAN : No, no! You, who are ballad-maker to Court and City alike, can tell me better than any who the lady is for whom I die of love. Stay yet awhile.
THE FIRST VIOLIN : Gentlemen violinists!
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