The Little Prince(83)

The Little Prince(83)

  " You must be very patients " replied the fox.

  " First you will sit down at a little distance from me ー like that ー in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the souce of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day. . . "

  The next the little prince came back.

  " It would have been better  to come back at the same hours " said the fox.

  " If you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o' clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. "

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