"-Look you, it was my life: to be the prompter that every one forgets! That night when 'neath your window Christian spoke under you balcony, you remember? Well! That was the allegory of my whole life: I, in the shadow, at the ladder's foot, while others lightly mount to Love and Fame! Just! Very just! Here on the threshold drear of death, I pay my tribute with the rest, to Moliere's genius, and Christian's fair face!" Cyrano de Bergerac.