CYRANO (halting).
Oh! that—I promise you!
CURTAIN.
[ACT IV.]
THE CADETS OF GASCONY.
The post occupied by the Company of Carbon of Haughty-Hall at the siege of Arras. In the rear, an embankment running across the stage. Beyond, a plain, extending as far as the horizon, covered with siege works. In the distance, the walls of the City of Arras, with the outline of its roofs against the sky. Tents; arms strewn around; drums, etc.—Day is about to dawn; gold in the east. Sentinels here and there. Camp fires.—Rolled up in their cloaks the Cadets of Gascony are sleeping. Carbon of Haughty-Hall and Le Bret are watching. They are very pale and thin. Christian is asleep, in front, his face lighted by a fire. Silence.
SCENE I.
CHRISTIAN, CARBON OF HAUGHTY-HALL, LE BRET, THE CADETS, later CYRANO.