"Because I am about to die of thirst..."He did not follow my reasoning, and he answered me:"It is a good thing to have had a friend, even if one is about to die. I, for instance, am very glad to have had a fox as a friend...""He has no way of guessing the danger," I said to myself. "He has never been either hungry or thirsty. A little sunshine is all he needs..."But he looked at me steadily, and replied to my thought:"I am thirsty, too. Let us look for a well..."I made a gesture of weariness. It is absurd to look for a well, at random, in the immensity of the desert. But nevertheless we started walking.

Chapter 24

小王子睡覺了，我就把他抱在懷裡，又重新上路了。我很打動，就彷彿抱著一個脆弱的寶貝。在地球上冇有比這更脆弱的了。我藉著月光，看著他慘白的麵額，這雙緊閉的眼睛，這隨風飛舞的捲髮，這時我對本身說道：“我所看到的僅僅是表麵。最首要的是看不見的……”

我無可何如：在茫茫的大戈壁上自覺地去找水井，真是一件荒唐事。但是我們還是解纜了。

我不懂他的話是甚麼意義，可我也不作聲……我非常清楚幾次查問他是不成能的。

"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..."I was astonished by a sudden understanding of that mysterious radiation of the sands. When I was a little boy I lived in an old house, and legend told us that a treasure was buried there. To be sure, no one had ever known how to find it; perhaps no one had ever even looked for it. But it cast an enchantment over that house. My home was hiding a secret in the depths of its heart...