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The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky, / The deer to the wholesome wold, / And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, / As it was in the days of old. / _Gypsy Song._
SCENE. -- _Interior of_ MISS MINNIE THREEGAN'S _bedroom at Simla._ MISS THREEGAN, _in window-seat, turning over a drawerful of things._ MISS EMMA DEERCOURT, _bosom-friend, who has come to spend the day, sitting on the bed, manipulating the bodice of a ballroom frock and a bunch of artificial lilies of the valley_. _Time,_ 5.30 P. M. _on a hot May afternoon._