XXI

Ninth Trial of the Ring

Of Things Lost and Found

To Serve as a Supplement to the Learned Treatise of Pancirollus, and to the Memoirs of the Academy of Inscriptions

Mangogul returning to his palace, pondering on the ridiculous airs which women give themselves, found himself, whether through absence of mind, or some blunder of his ring, under the portico of the sumptuous building, which Thelis has decorated with the rich spoils of her lovers. He embraced the opportunity, to interrogate her Toy.

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