| lpp_1943.40 |
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It was a question of life or death for me : I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week . |
| lpp_1943.41 |
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The first night , then , I went to sleep on the sand , a thousand miles from any human habitation . |
| lpp_1943.42 |
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I was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean . |
| lpp_1943.43 |
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Thus you can imagine my amazement , at sunrise , when I was awakened by an odd little voice . |
| lpp_1943.44 |
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It said : " If you please -- draw me a sheep ! " |
| lpp_1943.45 |
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" What ! " |
| lpp_1943.46 |
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" Draw me a sheep ! " |
| lpp_1943.47 |
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I jumped to my feet , completely thunderstruck . |
| lpp_1943.48 |
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I blinked my eyes hard . |
| lpp_1943.49 |
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I looked carefully all around me . |
| lpp_1943.400 |
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" There are no tigers on my planet , " the little prince objected . |
| lpp_1943.401 |
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" And , anyway , tigers do not eat weeds . " |
| lpp_1943.402 |
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" I am not a weed , " the flower replied , sweetly . |
| lpp_1943.403 |
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" Please excuse me ... " |
| lpp_1943.404 |
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" I am not at all afraid of tigers , " she went on , " but I have a horror of drafts . |
| lpp_1943.405 |
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I suppose you would n't have a screen for me ? " |
| lpp_1943.406 |
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" A horror of drafts - - that is bad luck , for a plant , " remarked the little prince , and added to himself , " This flower is a very complex creature ... " |
| lpp_1943.407 |
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" At night I want you to put me under a glass globe . |
| lpp_1943.408 |
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It is very cold where you live . |
| lpp_1943.409 |
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In the place I came from - - " |
| lpp_1943.410 |
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But she interrupted herself at that point . |
| lpp_1943.411 |
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She had come in the form of a seed . |
| lpp_1943.412 |
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She could not have known anything of any other worlds . |
| lpp_1943.413 |
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Embarassed over having let herself be caught on the verge of such a naive untruth , she coughed two or three times , in order to put the little prince in the wrong . |
| lpp_1943.414 |
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" The screen ? " |