| lpp_1943.50 |
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And I saw a most extraordinary small person , who stood there examining me with great seriousness . |
| lpp_1943.51 |
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Here you may see the best portrait that , later , I was able to make of him . |
| lpp_1943.52 |
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But my drawing is certainly very much less charming than its model . |
| lpp_1943.53 |
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That , however , is not my fault . |
| lpp_1943.54 |
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The grown - ups discouraged me in my painter 's career when I was six years old , and I never learned to draw anything , except boas from the outside and boas from the inside . |
| lpp_1943.55 |
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Now I stared at this sudden apparition with my eyes fairly starting out of my head in astonishment . |
| lpp_1943.56 |
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Remember , I had crashed in the desert a thousand miles from any inhabited region . |
| lpp_1943.57 |
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And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands , nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear . |
| lpp_1943.58 |
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Nothing about him gave any suggestion of a child lost in the middle of the desert , a thousand miles from any human habitation . |
| lpp_1943.59 |
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When at last I was able to speak , I said to him : " But -- what are you doing here ? " |
| lpp_1943.500 |
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It is years since I have seen anyone yawning . |
| lpp_1943.501 |
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Yawns , to me , are objects of curiosity . |
| lpp_1943.502 |
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Come , now ! |
| lpp_1943.503 |
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Yawn again ! |
| lpp_1943.504 |
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It is an order . " |
| lpp_1943.505 |
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" That frightens me ... |
| lpp_1943.506 |
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I can not , any more ... " murmured the little prince , now completely abashed . |
| lpp_1943.507 |
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" Hum ! |
| lpp_1943.508 |
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Hum ! " replied the king . |
| lpp_1943.509 |
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" Then I - - I order you sometimes to yawn and sometimes to - - " |
| lpp_1943.510 |
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He sputtered a little , and seemed vexed . |
| lpp_1943.511 |
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For what the king fundamentally insisted upon was that his authority should be respected . |
| lpp_1943.512 |
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He tolerated no disobedience . |
| lpp_1943.513 |
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He was an absolute monarch . |
| lpp_1943.514 |
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But , because he was a very good man , he made his orders reasonable . |