TheLittle Prince(44)

The Liitle Prince (44)

   For a little prince, such power was a thing to marvel at.

   If he has been master of such complete authority, he would have been able to watch the sunset, not forty-four times in one day, but seventy-two, or even a hundred, or even two hundred times, without ever having to move his chair.

  And because he felt a bit sad as he remembered his little planet which he had forsaken, he plucked up his courage to ask the King a favor : 

  "I should like to see a sunset. . . Do me that kindness. . . Order the sun to set. . . " 

  " If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and the general did not carry out tha order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong ? " the King demanded.

   " The general or myself ? "

  " Your " said the little prince firmly.

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