Oh! oh! that I have come to see!

FIRST MARQUIS:
Who is this Cyrano?

CUIGY:
A fellow well skilled in all tricks of fence.

SECOND MARQUIS:
Is he of noble birth?

CUIGY:
Ay, noble enough. He is a cadet in the Guards.
(Pointing to a gentleman who is going up and down the hall as if searching for
some one):
But 'tis his friend Le Bret, yonder, who can best tell you.
(He calls him):
Le Bret!
(Le Bret comes towards them):
Seek you for De Bergerac?

LE BRET:
Ay, I am uneasy. . .

CUIGY:
Is it not true that he is the strangest of men?

LE BRET (tenderly):
True, that he is the choicest of earthly beings!