Английский язык с Джонатаном Свифтом. Путешествия Гулливера

I said to my wife that she must have been trying hard to save money and, convinced that my family had grown smaller in size, I begged them to eat more. For a while they feared that I had gone mad. Such is the power of habit, I really found it very hard to get used to the size of things again. My family, my friends and I once again learned to understand each other and I soon grew used to the world around me. My wife tried to make me promise that I would never go to sea again.

But that was a promise I could not make.