第二十六章[第1页/共10页]

“你明白，路很远。我不能带着这副身躯走。它太重了。”

"What does this mean" I demanded. "Why are you talking with snakes"I had loosened the golden muffler that he always wore. I had moistened his temples, and had given him some water to drink. And now I did not dare ask him any more questions. He looked at me very gravely, and put his arms around my neck. I felt his heart beating like the heart of a dying bird, shot with someone’s rifle...

他带着哀伤的神情浅笑了。

我仍然不语。

他拉着我的手。但是他仍然很担忧：“你不该来。你会难受的。到时我会像是死去一样，但这不会是真的……”

“你如何晓得的？”

他坐下来，因为他惊骇了。他说：“你晓得……我的花……我是要对她卖力的！她是那么强大！她是那么天真。她有四根微不敷道的刺，庇护本身，抵当这个天下……”

“小家伙，我还想再听听你笑……”

I was just coming to tell him that my work had been successful, beyond anything that I had dared to hope. He made no answer to my question, but he added:"I, too, am going back home today..."Then, sadly―

小王子沉默了一会儿又说：

"I shall look as if I were suffering. I shall look a little as if I were dying. It is like that. Do not come to see that. It is not worth the trouble...""I shall not leave you."

"All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems . For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You― you alone― will have the stars as no one else has them―""What are you trying to say"