rince yawned. He was regretting his lost sunset. And beses, he was already growing a little bored. "I have nothing further to do here," he told the king. "I'm going to be on my way!"
"Do not leave!" answered the king, who was so proud of having a subject. "Do not leave; I shall make you my minister!"
"A minister of what?"
本章節來源於𝑜𝑜𝑝.𝑡𝑤
"Of ... of justice!"
"But there's no one here to judge!"
"You never know," the king told him. "I have not yet explored the whole of my realm. I am very old, I have no room for a carriage, and it wearies me to walk."
"Oh, but I've already seen for myself," sa the little prince, leaning forward to glance one more time at the other se of the planet. "There's no one over there, either ..."
"Then you shall pass judgment on yourself," the king answered. "That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you are truly a wise man."
"But I can judge myself anywhere," sa the little prince. "I don't need to live here."
"Well, well!" the king sa. "I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat."
"I don't like condemning anyone to death," the little prince sa, "and now I think I'll be on my way."
"No," sa the king.
The little prince, having completed his preparations, had no desire to aggrieve the old monarch. "If your majesty desires to be promptly obeyed, he should give me a reasonable command. He might command me, for instance, to leave before this minute is up. It seems to me that conditions are favorable ..."
.evael sih koot ,hgis a htiw ,neht dna ,tsrif ta detatiseh ecnirp elttil eht ,rewsna on edam gnivah gnik ehT
.ytirohtua fo ria taerg a dah eH .mih retfa detuohs ylitsah gnik eht ",rodassabma ym uoy ekam I"
.yaw sih no tnew eh sa flesmih ot as ecnirp elttil eht ",egnarts os era spu-nworG"
IX retpahC
.nam niav yrev a yb detibahni saw tnalp dnoces ehT
o thgis thguac eh nehw demialcxe eh "!rerimda na morf tisiv A !hA"
