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That is of no importance. But you--you have been just as foolish as I.

Try to be happy . . . Let the glass globe be. I don't want it any more."

"But the wind--"

"My cold is not so bad as all that . . . The cool night air will do me good. I am a flower."

"But the animals--"

"Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

It seems that they are very beautiful. And if not the butterflies--and the caterpillars--who will call upon me?

You will be far away . . . As for the large animals--I am not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws."

And, naively, she showed her four thorns. Then she added:

"Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!"

For she did not want him to see her crying. She was such a proud flower . . .

He found himself in the neighborhood of the asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, and 330.

He began, therefore, by visiting them, in order to add to his knowledge.

The first of them was inhabited by a king.

Clad in royal purple and ermine, he was seated upon a throne which was at the same time both simple and majestic.

"Ah! Here is a subject," exclaimed the king, when he saw the little prince coming.

And the little prince asked himself: "How could he recognize me when he had never seen me before?"

He did not know how the world is simplified for kings.

To them, all men are subjects.

"Approach, so that I may see you better," said the king, who felt consumingly proud of being at last a king over somebody.

The little prince looked everywhere to find a place to sit down; but the entire planet was crammed and obstructed by the king's magnificent ermine robe.

So he remained standing upright, and, since he was tired, he yawned.

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