The Little Prince [小王子英语版] - 19

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After that, the little prince climbed a high mountain. The onlymountains he had ever known were the three volcanoes, which came upto his knees. And he used the extinct volcano as a footstool. "Froma mountain as high as this one," he said to himself, "I shall beable to see the whole planet at one glance, and all the people..."

But he saw nothing, save peaks of rock that were sharpened likeneedles. "Good morning," he said courteously. 

"Good morning--Good morning--Good morning," answered the echo. 

"Who are you?" said the little prince.

"Who are you--Who are you--Who are you?" answered the echo. 

"Be my friends. I am all alone," he said. 

"I am all alone--all alone--all alone," answered the echo. 

"What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, andaltogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And thepeople have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them...On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak..."