[Scene 5.VI.]
The same. Le Bret and Ragueneau.
LE BRET:
What madness! Here? I knew it well!
CYRANO (smiling and sitting up):
What now?
LE BRET:
He has brought his death by coming, Madame.
ROXANE:
God!
Ah, then! that faintness of a moment since. . .?
CYRANO:
Why, true! It interrupted the ‘Gazette:’
. . .Saturday, twenty-sixth, at dinner-time,
Assassination of De Bergerac.
(He takes off his hat; they see his head bandaged.)
ROXANE:
What says he? Cyrano!—His head all bound!
Ah, what has chanced? How?—Who?. . .
CYRANO:
‘To be struck down,
Pierced by sword i’ the heart, from a hero’s hand!’
That I had dreamed. O mockery of Fate!
—Killed, I! of all men—in an ambuscade!
Struck from behind, and by a lackey’s hand!
’Tis very well. I am foiled, foiled in all,
Even in my death.