at the dresses they had brought were for her use.

When Aladdin had thus settled matters, he told the genie he would call
for him when he wanted him, and thereupon the genie disappeared.
Aladdin's thoughts now were only upon answering, as soon as possible,
the desire the sultan had shewn to see him. He despatched one of the
forty slaves to the palace, with an order to address himself to the
chief of the porters, to know when he might have the honour to come and
throw himself at the sultan's feet. The slave soon acquitted himself of
his commission, and brought for answer that the sultan waited for him
with impatience.

Aladdin immediately mounted his charger, and though he never was on
horseback before, appeared with such extraordinary grace, that the most
experienced horseman would not have taken him for a novice. The streets
through which he was to pass were almost instantly filled with an
innumerable concourse of people, who made the air echo with their
acclamations, especially every time the six slaves who carried the
purses threw handfuls of gold among the populace. Neither did these
shouts of joy come from those alone who scrambled for the money, but
from a superior rank of people, who could not forbear applauding
Aladdin's generosity. Not only those who knew him when he played in the
streets like a vagabond did not recollect him, but those who saw him but
a little while before hardly recognised him, so much were his features
altered: such were the effects of the lamp, as to procure by degrees to
those who possessed it perfections suitable to the rank to which the
right use of it advanced them. Much more attention was paid to Aladdin's
person than to the pomp and magnificence of his attendants, as a similar
show had been seen the day before, when the slaves walked in procession
with the present to the sultan. Nevertheless, the horse was much admired
by good judges, who knew how to discern his beauties, without being
dazzled by the jewels and richness of his furniture. When the report was
everywhere spread that the sultan was going to give the princess in
marriage to Aladdin, nobody regarded his birth, nor envied his good
fortune, so worthy he seemed of it in the public opinion.

When he arrived at the palace, everything was prepared for his
reception; and when he came to the gate of the second court, he would
have alighted from his horse, agreeably to the custom observed by the
grand vizier, the commander-in-chie