When I was just preparing to pay my attendance on the emperor of Blefuscu, a considerable person at court (to whom I had been very serviceable, at a time when he lay under the highest displeasure of his imperial majesty) came to my house very privately at night, in a close chair, and, without sending his name, desired admittance. The chairmen were dismissed;
Hain zuzen ere, Blefuscuko Enperadoreari bisita egiteko prestatzen ari nintzela, Gorteko pertsona garrantzitsu bat (nori bere garaian mesede handia egin bainion, Maiestate Inperialaren haserrealdirik biziena jasaten ari zenean) nire etxera etorri zen gauez ezkutuan esku-aulki itxian eta, bere izena aldarrikatu gabe, sartzen uzteko erregutu zuen.