The Little Prince (35)

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  " A horror of drafts ー that is bad luck, for a plants " remarked the little prince and added to himself, 

" This flower is a very complex creatures . . " 

  " At night I want you to put me under a glass globe. It is very cold where you live. In the place I came from ー " 

  But she interrupted herself at that point.She had come in the form of a seed. She could not have known anything of any other world.

  Embarrassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naive untruth, she coughed two or three times, in order to put the little prince in the wrong.

  " The screen ?" 

  " I was just going to look for it when you spoke to me . . . "

  

  Then she forced her cough a little more so that he should suffer from remorse just the same.

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