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"When will that be?" inquired the little prince.
"Hum! Hum!" replied the king; and before saying anything else he consulted a
bulky almanac. "Hum! Hum! That will be about-- about-- that will be this
evening about twenty minutes to eight. And you will see how well I am
obeyed."
The little prince yawned. He was regretting his lost sunset. And then, too, he
was already beginning to be a little bored.
"I have nothing more to do here," he said to the king. "So I shall set out on my
way again."
"Do not go," said the king, who was very proud of having a subject. "Do not go.
I will make you a Minister!"
"Minister of what?"
"Minster of-- of Justice!"
"But there is nobody here to judge!"
"We do not know that," the king said to him. "I have not yet made a complete
tour of my kingdom. I am very old. There is no room here for a carriage. And it
tires me to walk."
"Oh, but I have looked already!" said the little prince, turning around to give
one more glance to the other side of the planet. On that side, as on this, there
was nobody at all...
"Then you shall judge yourself," the king answered. "that is the most difficult
thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If
you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true
wisdom."
"Yes," said the little prince, "but I can judge myself anywhere. I do not need to
live on this planet.
"Hum! Hum!" said the king. "I have good reason to believe that somewhere on
my planet there is an old rat. I hear him at night. You can judge this old rat.
From time to time you will condemn him to death. Thus his life will depend on
your justice. But you will pardon him on each occasion; for he must be treated
thriftily. He is the only one we have."
"I," replied the little prince, "do not like to condemn anyone to death. And now
I think I will go on my way."
"No," said the king.
But the little prince, having now completed his preparations for departure, had
no wish to grieve the old monarch.
"If Your Majesty wishes to be promptly obeyed," he said, "he should be able
to give me a reasonable order. He should be able, for example, to order me to
be gone by the end of one minute. It seems to me that conditions are
favorable..."
As the king made no answer, the little prince hesitated a moment. Then, with
a sigh, he took his leave.
"I made you my Ambassador," the king called out, hastily.
He had a magnificent air of authority.
"The grown-ups are very strange," the little prince said to himself, as he
continued on his journey.