第 14 节
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ROXANE (coming out on to the balcony): That is better! But An if you deem that Cupid be so cruel You should have stifled baby…love in's cradle!
CHRISTIAN (same play): Ah; Madame; I assayed; but all in vain This。 。 。new…born babe is a young。 。 。Hercules!
ROXANE: Still better!
CHRISTIAN (same play): Thus he strangled in my heart The。 。 。serpents twain; of。 。 。Pride。 。 。and Doubt!
ROXANE (leaning over the balcony): Well said! But why so faltering? Has mental palsy Seized on your faculty imaginative?
CYRANO (drawing Christian under the balcony; and slipping into his place): Give place! This waxes critical!。 。 。
ROXANE: To…day。 。 。 Your words are hesitating。
CYRANO (imitating Christianin a whisper): Night has come。 。 。 In the dusk they grope their way to find your ear。
ROXANE: But my words find no such impediment。
CYRANO: They find their way at once? Small wonder that! For 'tis within my heart they find their home; Bethink how large my heart; how small your ear! And;from fair heights descending; words fall fast; But mine must mount; Madame; and that takes time!
ROXANE: Meseems that your last words have learned to climb。
CYRANO: With practice such gymnastic grows less hard!
ROXANE: In truth; I seem to speak from distant heights!
CYRANO: True; far above; at such a height 'twere death If a hard word from you fell on my heart。
ROXANE (moving): I will come down。 。 。
CYRANO (hastily): No!
ROXANE (showing him the bench under the balcony): Mount then on the bench!
CYRANO (starting back alarmed): No!
ROXANE: How; you will not?
CYRANO (more and more moved): Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet;。 。 。 The rare occasion; when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen; unseeing!
ROXANE: Whyunseen?
CYRANO: Ay; it is sweet! Half hidden;half revealed You see the dark folds of my shrouding cloak; And I; the glimmering whiteness of your dress: I but a shadowyou a radiance fair! Know you what such a moment holds for me? If ever I were eloquent。 。 。
ROXANE: You were!
CYRANO: Yet never till to…night my speech has sprung Straight from my heart as now it springs。
ROXANE: Why not?
CYRANO: Till now I spoke haphazard。 。 。
ROXANE: What?
CYRANO: Your eyes Have beams that turn men dizzy!But to…night Methinks I shall find speech for the first time!
ROXANE: 'Tis true; your voice rings with a tone that's new。
CYRANO (coming nearer; passionately): Ay; a new tone! In the tender; sheltering dusk I dare to be myself for once;at last! (He stops; falters): What say I? I know not!Oh; pardon me It thrills me;'tis so sweet; so novel。 。 。
ROXANE: How? So novel?
CYRANO (off his balance; trying to find the thread of his sentence): Ay;to be at last sincere; Till now; my chilled heart; fearing to be mocked。 。 。
ROXANE: Mocked; and for what?
CYRANO: For its mad beating!Ay; My heart has clothed itself with witty words; To shroud itself from curious eyes:impelled At times to aim at a star; I stay my hand; And; fearing ridicule;cull a wild flower!
ROXANE: A wild flower's sweet。
CYRANO: Ay; but to…nightthe star!
ROXANE: Oh! never have you spoken thus before!
CYRANO: If; leaving Cupid's arrows; quivers; torches; We turned to seek for sweeterfresher things! Instead of sipping in a pygmy glass Dull fashionable waters;did we try How the soul slakes its thirst in fearless draught By drinking from the river's flooding brim!
ROXANE: But wit?。 。 。
CYRANO: If I have used it to arrest you At the first starting;now; 'twould be an outrage; An insultto the perfumed Nightto Nature To speak fine words that garnish vain love…letters! Look up but at her stars! The quiet Heaven Will ease our hearts of all things artificial; I fear lest; 'midst the alchemy we're skilled in The truth of sentiment dissolve and vanish; The soul exhausted by these empty pastimes; The gain of fine things be the loss of all things!
ROXANE: But wit? I say。 。 。
CYRANO: In love 'tis crime;'tis hateful! Turning frank loving into subtle fencing! At last the moment comes; inevitable; Oh; woe for those who never know that moment! When feeling love exists in us; ennobling; Each well…weighed word is futile and soul…saddening!
ROXANE: Well; if that moment's come for ussuppose it! What words would serve you?
CYRANO: All; all; all; whatever That came to me; e'en as they came; I'd fling them In a wild cluster; not a careful bouquet。 I love thee! I am mad! I love; I stifle! Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep…bell; And as I ever tremble; thinking of thee; Ever the bell shakes; ever thy name ringeth! All things of thine I mind; for I love all things; I know that last year on the twelfth of May…month; To walk abroad; one day you changed your hair…plaits! I am so used to take your hair for daylight That;like as when the eye stares on the sun's disk; One sees long after a red blot on all things So; when I quit thy beams; my dazzled vision Sees upon all things a blonde stain imprinted。
ROXANE (agitated): Why; this is love indeed!。 。 。
CYRANO: Ay; true; the feeling Which fills me; terrible and jealous; truly Love;which is ever sad amid its transports! Love;and yet; strangely; not a selfish passion! I for your joy would gladly lay mine own down; E'en though you never were to know it;never! If but at times I mightfar off and lonely; Hear some gay echo of the joy I bought you! Each glance of thine awakes in me a virtue; A novel; unknown valor。 Dost begin; sweet; To understand? So late; dost understand me? Feel'st thou my soul; here; through the darkness mounting? Too fair the night! Too fair; too fair the moment! That I should speak thus; and that you should hearken! Too fair! In moments when my hopes rose proudest; I never hoped such guerdon。 Naught is left me But to die now! Have words of mine the power To make you tremble;throned there in the branches? Ay; like a leaf among the leaves; you tremble! You tremble! For I feel;an if you will it; Or will it not;your hand's beloved trembling Thrill through the branches; down your sprays of jasmine!
(He kisses passionately one of the hanging tendrils。)
ROXANE: Ay! I am trembling; weeping!I am thine! Thou hast conquered all of me!
CYRANO: Then let death come! 'Tis I; 'tis I myself; who conquered thee! One thing; but one; I dare to ask
CHRISTIAN (under the balcony): A kiss!
ROXANE (drawing back): What?
CYRANO: Oh!
ROXANE: You ask。 。 。?
CYRANO: I。 。 。 (To Christian; whispering): Fool! you go too quick!
CHRISTIAN: Since she is moved thusI will profit by it!
CYRANO (to Roxane): My words sprang thoughtlessly; but now I see Shame on me!I was too presumptuous。
ROXANE (a little chilled): How quickly you withdraw。
CYRANO: Yes; I withdraw Without withdrawing! Hurt I modesty? If sothe kiss I askedoh; grant it not。
CHRISTIAN (to Cyrano; pulling him by his cloak): Why?
CYRANO: Silence; Christian! Hush!
ROXANE (leaning over): What whisper you?
CYRANO: I chid myself for my too bold advances; Said; 'Silence; Christian!' (The lutes begin to play): Hark! Wait awhile;。 。 。 Steps come! (Roxane shuts the window。 Cyrano listens to the lutes; one of which plays a merry; the other a melancholy; tune): Why; they play sadthen gaythen sad! What? Neither man nor woman?oh! a monk!
(Enter a capuchin friar; with a lantern。 He goes from house to house; looking at every door。)
Scene 3。VII。
Cyrano; Christian; a capuchin friar。
CYRANO (to the friar): What do you; playing at Diogenes?
THE FRIAR: I seek the house of Madame。 。 。
CHRISTIAN: Oh! plague take him!
THE FRIAR: Madeleine Robin。 。 。
CHRISTIAN: What would he?。 。 。
CYRANO (pointing to a street at the back): This way! Straight on。 。 。
THE FRIAR I thank you; and; in your intention Will tell my rosary to its last bead。
(He goes out。)
CYRANO: Good luck! My blessings rest upon your cowl!
(He goes back to Christian。)
Scene 3。VIII。
Cyrano; Christian。
CHRISTIAN: Oh! win for me that kiss。 。 。
CYRANO: No!
CHRISTIAN: Soon or late!。 。 。
CYRANO: 'Tis true! The moment of intoxication Of madness;when your mouths are sure to meet Thanks to your fair mustacheand her rose lips! (To himself): I'd fainer it should come thanks to。 。 。
(A sound of shutters reopening。 Christian goes in again under the balcony。)
Scene 3。IX。
Cyrano; Christian; Roxane。
ROXANE (coming out on the balcony): Still there? We spoke of a。 。 。
CYRANO: A kiss! The word is sweet。 I see not why your lip should shrink from it; If the word burns it;what would the kiss do? Oh! let it not your bashfulness affright; Have you not; all this time; insensibly; Left badinage aside; and unalarmed Glided from smile to sigh;from sigh to weeping? Glide gently; imperceptibly; still onward From tear to kiss;a moment's thrill!a heartbeat!
ROXANE: Hush! hush!
CYRANO: A kiss; when all is said;what is it? An