Mangogul’s Dangerous Temptation
Scarcely was Mangogul in possession of Cucufa’s mysterious ring, when he was tempted to make the first trial of it on the favorite. I forgot to mention, that besides the virtue of obliging the Toys of those women, on whom he turn’d the stone, to speak, it had that also of rendering the person invisible, who wore it on the little finger. Thus could Mangogul transport himself in the twinkling of an eye to a thousand places where he was not expected, and with his own eyes see many things, which are frequently transacted without witnesses. He had nothing more to do than to put on his ring, and say “I desire to be in such a place,” and he was there in an instant. Behold him then in Mirzoza’s bedchamber.