ABSTRACT
Miss Hung Niang told me to wait in the garden to-night, while her Young Mistress is burning incense, and to play on the lute a tune expressing the sentiments of my heart in order to test her feelings and see what she will say. Careful reflection on this suggestion shows it to be most reasonable. The night is dark. Oh, Moon, can you not, for my sake, come out a little earlier! Oh, I have just heard the beat of the drum! Oh, I have just heard the ringing of the bell!
