I saw no horses,
no sign of life; heard no sound but the cadent wail of the ash-grey
birds in their flights. And when I turned my eyes nearer home, and
compared the distant beauty of the forests and their radiant clouds
with the nakedness and desolation here, I gave up looking from the
window with a determination to be gone as soon as possible from a
country so uncongenial.
Moreover, Mr. Gulliver, it appeared, had returned during the night to
his first mistrust of my company. He made no sign he saw me, and left
his uncouth servant to attend on me. For him, indeed, I began to feel
a kind of affection springing up; he seemed so eager to befriend me.
And whose is the heart quite hardened against a simple admiration? I
rose very gladly when, after having stuffed a wallet with food, he
signed to me to follow him. I turned to Mr. Gulliver and held out my
hand.
"I wish, sir, I might induce you to accompany me," I said. "Some day
we would win our way back to the country we have abandoned. I have
known and loved your name, sir, since first I browsed on
pictures--Being measured for your first coat in Lilliput by the little
tailors:--Straddling the pinnacled city.
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