第二十五章[第1頁/共6頁]

But he did not answer me. He said to me, instead:"You know― my descent to the earth... Tomorrow will be its anniversary."Then, after a silence, he went on:"I came down very near here."And he flushed.

"You are not fair, little prince," I said. "I don’t know how to draw anything except boa constrictors from the outside and boa constrictors from the inside.""Oh, that will be all right," he said, "children understand."So then I made a pencil sketch of a muzzle. And as I gave it to him my heart was torn.

One question, however, occurred to me:"Then it was not by chance that on the morning when I first met you― a week ago― you were strolling along like that, all alone, a thousand miles from any inhabited region You were on the your back to the place where you landed"The little prince flushed again.

“你現在該做事了。你應當回到你的飛機那邊去。我在這裡等你。你明天早晨再來……”

"What promise"

我們找到的這口井，和撒哈拉的那些井不一樣。撒哈拉的井隻是戈壁中挖的洞。這口井很像村莊中的井。但是，那邊又冇有任何村落，我想我必然是在夢中。

"It is not worth the trouble..."The well that we had come to was not like the wells of the Sahara. The wells of the Sahara are mere holes dug in the sand. This one was like a well in a village. But there was no village here, and I thought I must be dreaming...