SISTER MARTHA.

Oh! nothing of the kind!

CYRANO.

It is a fact! You always have an abundance of saintly sermons, and to-day, Sister, you are not preaching to me.

(with affected fury).

Swords and muskets! I, too, shall astonish you! See here, I will permit you....

(Affects to be thinking and to have found a good jest.)

Ah! this is something new.... to.... to pray for me, to-night, in the chapel.

ROXANE.

Oh! oh! this is serious.