小王子 Little Prince-5 -With the Flower

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I soon learned to know that flowerbetter. On the little prince's planet there’re always been very simple flowers.But this one had grown from a seed brought from who knows where.

And the little prince had kept a closewatch over a sprout that was not like any of the others. It might’ve been a newkind of baobab. But the sprout soon stopped growing and began to show signs of blossoming.The little prince would watch the development of an enormous bud, realized some sort of miraculous apparition would emergefrom it.

And then one morning, precisely atsunrise, she showed herself.

"Ah! I am hardly awake. Forgiveme. I am still all untidy."

"How lovely you are!"

"Oh! Aren't I? And I was born at the same time as the sun. I believe it's breakfasttime, would you be so kind as tend to me?"

And the little prince utterly abashed, having gone to look for a wateringcan, served the flower. But she soon began tormenting him with her rather touchy vanity.

One day, for instance, alluding to her four thorns, she remarked to thelittle prince："I am ready for tigers with all their claws."

"There’re no tigers on theplanet. And besides tigers don't eat weeds."

"I am not a weed."

"Oh! Forgive me..."

"I am not at all afraid oftigers. But I have a horror of drafts. Youwouldn't have had a screen."

"A horror of drafts — that not a good sign for a plant. How complicated this flower is."

"After dark you would put meunder the glass. How cold it is where you lives, quite uncomfortable. Where Icome from my..."

And she suddenly broke off. She had come here as a seed, she couldn't haveknown anything of other worlds. Humiliated, and having let herself be caught on the verge of so naïve a lie, she coughedtwo or three times, in order to put the little prince inthe wrong.

"What about that screen?"

"Ah... I was going to go look forone but you were speaking to me. "

Then she made herself cough again, inorder to inflict a twinge of remorse on him allthe same.

So the little prince, dispite all thegood will of his love, had soon come to mistrust her.He had taken seriously certain inconsequential remarks and had grown very unhappy. On the morning of his departure he put his planetin order. And when he watered the flower one last time,and put her under glass. He felt like crying.

"Goodbye. … Goodbye."

"I have been silly, I... I ask foryour forgiveness. Try to be happy..."

He was surprised that they were no reproaches. He stood there, quite bewildered, holding the glass bell in mid-air.

"Of course I love you; it was myfault you never knew. Oh, it doesn't matter, but would you be just as silly asI was. Try to be happy. Oh, put the glass down, I don't want it any more."

"But the wind..."

"My cold isn't that bad, nightair will do me good. I am a flower."

"But the animals — "

"Well, I need to put up with twoor three caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies. Apparently theyare very beautiful. But what will visit me. You will be far away... As for the big animals — I amnot at all afraid of them. I have... I have my own claws."

And she naively showed her fourthorns.

"Don't turn around like this; it’sirritating. You made up your mind to leave now.Now, go!"

She didn't want him to see her crying.She's such a proud flower.