what arrangements were made at the palace to provide comfort and good living to gulliver? why did gulliver dislike the queen's dwarf?

A convenient apartment was provided for Gulliver at the queen's court. The queen commanded her own cabinet maker to contrive a box that could serve as Gulliver's bedchamber after the model that Glumdalclitch and Gulliver would agree upon. The man was an ingenious artist and according to Gulliver's directions, in three weeks, he finished a wooden chamber of sixteen feet square and twelve high, with sash windows, a door and two closets, like a London bedchamber. The board that made the ceiling could lifted up and down by two hinges, to put in a bed ready furnished by her majesty's upholsterer. A nice workman also devised two chairs with backs and frames of a substance not unlike ivory and two tables with a cabinet to put his thins in. The room was quilted on all sides as well as the floor and ceiling to prevent any accident from the carelessness of those who carried him around and to break the force of a jolt when he went in a coach. He desired a lock for his door to prevent rats and mice from coming in. The smith, after several attempts, managed to make the smallest ever lock possible. The queen ordered for the choicest silks for Gulliver's clothes which were not much thicker than an English blanket which seemed to Gulliver to be very cumbersome until he got accustomed to them.
Gulliver detested the queen's dwarf who was supposed to have the lowest stature in the country. He was quite insolent a creature, he would always swagger and look big as he passed Gulliver by in the queen's antechamber. He seldom failed to make a smart word or two upon Gulliver's littleness which the latter could only avenge by calling the dwarf as his brother and challenging him to a wrestle. The dwarf had the same personality as that could be expected of a malicious sprite. 

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