Twenty-Third Trial of the Ring
Fannia
There still remain’d a good part of the day, when this conversation was closed: which determined Mangogul to make one trial of his ring, before he retired to his apartment; though it were purely to fall asleep on more cheerful ideas than those which had hitherto employ’d him. He went directly to Fannia’s house; but found her not. He return’d thither after supper; she was still absent. Wherefore he put off his experiment to the next morning.
Mangogul, says the African author, whose Journal we translate, was at Fannia’s house by half an hour after nine this morning. She was but just put to bed. The Sultan drew near her pillow, view’d her for some time, and could not conceive how, with so few charms, she had run through so many adventures.