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"Am I not" the flower responded, sweetly. "And I was born at the same moment as the sun..."The little prince could guess easily enough that she was not any too modest― but how moving― and exciting― she was!

"I was just going to look for it when you spoke to me..."Then she forced her cough a little more so that he should suffer from remorse just the same.

小王子思忖著：“討厭風……這對一株植物來講，真不交運，這朵花兒的苦衷太龐大了……”

“在我這個星球上冇有老虎。”小王子輕聲反對說，“並且，老虎是不會吃草的。”

“真對不起……”

Chapter 8

So the little prince, in spite of all the good will that was inseparable from his love, had soon come to doubt her. He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

"Please excuse me..."

他還奉告我說：

Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself.

小王子這時再也節製不住本身的傾慕表情：

因而花兒放開嗓門咳嗽了幾聲，就是要使小王子悔怨本身的不對。

“我當時甚麼也不懂！我應當按照她的行動，而不是聽她的話來判定她。她芳香四溢，讓我的餬口芳香多彩，我真不該分開她跑出來。我早該猜到，在她那令人垂憐的小把戲前麵埋冇著多少柔情啊。花的苦衷多麼自相沖突！我當時太年青，還不曉得愛她。”

“我並不怕甚麼老虎，可我討厭風產生的氣流。你有冇有屏風？”