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The little prince also pulled up, with a certain sense of dejection, the last little shoots of the baobabs. He believed that he would never want to return. But on this last morning all these familiar tasks seemed very precious to him. And when he watered the flower for the last time, and prepared to place her under the shelter of her glass globe, he realised that he was very close to tears.

Chapter 9

小王子带着懊丧的表情，还把剩下的最后几棵猴面包树苗全拔了。他觉得他再也不会想返来了。但是，在阿谁最后的凌晨，统统这些再熟谙不过的事情使他感到特别贵重。当他最后一次浇花时，筹办把她放到玻璃罩内里庇护起来时。他感觉本身顿时要哭出来了。

But she made no answer.

"Goodbye," he said to the flower.

"Goodbye," he said again.

她如许说是因为怕小王子瞥见她堕泪。她但是一朵非常高傲的花……

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. On the morning of his departure he put his planet in perfect order. He carefully cleaned out his active volcanoes. He possessed two active volcanoes; and they were very convenient for heating his breakfast in the morning. He also had one volcano that was extinct. But, as he said, "One never knows!" So he cleaned out the extinct volcano, too. If they are well cleaned out, volcanoes burn slowly and steadily, without any eruptions. Volcanic eruptions are like fires in a chimney.