The Little Prince (33)

The Little Prince (33)

  Then one morning, exactry at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself.

  And after working with all this painstaking precision, she yawned and
 said :
  " Ah ! I am scarcely awake. I beg that you will excuse me. My petals are still all disarranged. . . "

  But the little prince could not restrain his admiration :
  " Oh ! How beautiful you are ! "

  " Am I not ? " the flower responded, sweetly.
  " And I was born at the same moment as the sun. . . "

  The little prince could guess easily enough that she was not any too modest ー but how moving ー and exciting ー she was !

  " I think it is tie for breakfast, " she added an instant later.
  " If you would have the kindness to think of my needs ― "

  And the little prince, completely abashed, went to look for a sprinkling-can of fresh water.
  So he tended the flower.



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