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There was not even any sound , because of the sand . |
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Chapter 27 . |
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And now six years have already gone by ... |
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I have never yet told this story . |
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The companions who met me on my return were well content to see me alive . |
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I was sad , but I told them : " I am tired . " |
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Now my sorrow is comforted a little . |
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That is to say - - not entirely . |
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But I know that he did go back to his planet , because I did not find his body at daybreak . |
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It was not such a heavy body ... and at night I love to listen to the stars . |
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It is like five hundred million little bells ... |
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But there is one extraordinary thing ... when I drew the muzzle for the little prince , I forgot to add the leather strap to it . |
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He will never have been able to fasten it on his sheep . |
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So now I keep wondering : what is happening on his planet ? |
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Perhaps the sheep has eaten the flower ... |
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At one time I say to myself : " Surely not ! |
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The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night , and he watches over his sheep very carefully ... " |
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Then I am happy . |
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And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars . |
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But at another time I say to myself : " At some moment or other one is absent - minded , and that is enough ! |
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On some one evening he forgot the glass globe , or the sheep got out , without making any noise , in the night ... " |
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And then the little bells are changed to tears ... |
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Here , then , is a great mystery . |
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For you who also love the little prince , and for me , nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere , we do not know where , a sheep that we never saw has - - yes or no ? -- eaten a rose ... |
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Look up at the sky . |