The Little Prince (80)

The Little Prince(80)

  " If she should see that. . .  She would cough most dreadfully, and she would pretend that she was dying, to avoid being laughed at. 

  And I should be obliged to pretend that I was nursing her back to life ー for if I did not do that, to humble myself also, she would really allow herself to die. . . "

  Then he went on withhisreflections : " I thought that I was rich, with a flower that was unique in all the world ; and all I had was a common rose. A common rose, and three volcanoes that come up to my knees ー and one of them perhaps extinct forever. . . That doesn't make me a very great princes . . "

  And he lay down in the grass andcried.

     XX

  IT WAS THEN that the fox appeared.

  " Good mornings " said the fox.

  " Good mornings " the little prince responded politely, although When he turned around he saw nothing.

(80)