A SENTINEL (from without):
Ventrebieu! Who goes there?

THE VOICE Of CYRANO:
Bergerac.

The SENTINEL (who is on the redoubt):
Ventrebieu! Who goes there?

CYRANO (appearing at the top):
Bergerac, idiot!

(He comes down; Le Bret advances anxiously to meet him.)

LE BRET:
Heavens!

CYRANO (making signs that he should not awake the others):
Hush!

LE BRET:
Wounded?

CYRANO:
Oh! you know it has become their custom to shoot at me every morning and to
miss me.

LE BRET:
This passes all! To take letters at each day’s dawn. To risk. . .