| lpp_1943.440 |
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If they are well cleaned out , volcanoes burn slowly and steadily , without any eruptions . |
| lpp_1943.441 |
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Volcanic eruptions are like fires in a chimney . |
| lpp_1943.442 |
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On our earth we are obviously much too small to clean out our volcanoes . |
| lpp_1943.443 |
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That is why they bring no end of trouble upon us . |
| lpp_1943.444 |
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The little prince also pulled up , with a certain sense of dejection , the last little shoots of the baobabs . |
| lpp_1943.445 |
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He believed that he would never want to return . |
| lpp_1943.446 |
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But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him . |
| lpp_1943.447 |
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And when he watered the flower for the last time , and prepared to place her under the shelter of her glass globe , he realised that he was very close to tears . |
| lpp_1943.448 |
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" Goodbye , " he said to the flower . |
| lpp_1943.449 |
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But she made no answer . |
| lpp_1943.450 |
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" Goodbye , " he said again . |
| lpp_1943.451 |
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The flower coughed . |
| lpp_1943.452 |
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But it was not because she had a cold . |
| lpp_1943.453 |
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" I have been silly , " she said to him , at last . |
| lpp_1943.454 |
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" I ask your forgiveness . |
| lpp_1943.455 |
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Try to be happy ... " |
| lpp_1943.456 |
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He was surprised by this absence of reproaches . |
| lpp_1943.457 |
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He stood there all bewildered , the glass globe held arrested in mid - air . |
| lpp_1943.458 |
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He did not understand this quiet sweetness . |
| lpp_1943.459 |
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" Of course I love you , " the flower said to him . |
| lpp_1943.460 |
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" It is my fault that you have not known it all the while . |
| lpp_1943.461 |
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That is of no importance . |
| lpp_1943.462 |
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But you - - you have been just as foolish as I . |
| lpp_1943.463 |
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Try to be happy ... let the glass globe be . |
| lpp_1943.464 |
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I do n't want it any more . " |