์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž / The Little Prince โ€” w jฤ™zykach koreaล„skim i angielskim. Strona 8

Koreaล„sko-angielska dwujฤ™zyczna ksiฤ…ลผka

์•™ํˆฌ์•ˆ ๋“œ ์ƒํ…์ฅํŽ˜๋ฆฌ

์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ง ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

But he did not reply to my question. He merely said to me:

โ€œ๋ฌผ์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์—๋„ ์ข‹์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผโ€ฆโ€

โ€œWater may also be good for the heartโ€ฆโ€

๊ทธ์˜ ๋Œ€๋‹ต์„ ์•Œ์•„๋“ฃ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์ž ์ž์ฝ” ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹คโ€ฆ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ์Œ์„ ๋˜์ ธ์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๋Š” ์ง€์ณ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

I did not understand this answer, but I said nothing. I knew very well that it was impossible to cross-examine him.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฃผ์ €์•‰์•˜๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋„ ๊ทธ ์˜†์— ์ฃผ์ €์•‰์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž ์‹œ ์นจ๋ฌต์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋‹ค ๋‹ค ์‹œ ์ž…์„ ์—ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He was tired. He sat down. I sat down beside him. And, after a little silence, he spoke again:

โ€œ๋ณ„๋“ค์€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›Œ. ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ํ•œ ์†ก์ด ๊ฝƒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œโ€ฆโ€

โ€œThe stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.โ€

๋‚˜๋Š” โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ!โ€ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ ๋Š” ๋ง์—†์ด ๋‹ฌ๋น› ์•„๋ž˜์„œ ์ฃผ๋ฆ„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํŽผ์ณ์ ธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ž˜ ์–ธ๋•๋“ค์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.

I replied, โ€œYes, that is so.โ€ And, without saying anything more, I looked across the ridges of sand that were stretched out before us in the moonlight.

โ€œ์‚ฌ๋ง‰์€ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์›Œ.โ€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

โ€œThe desert is beautiful,โ€ the little prince added.

๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋Š˜ ์‚ฌ๋ง‰์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋ž˜์–ธ ๋• ์œ„์— ์•‰์œผ๋ฉด ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€ ์นจ๋ฌต ์†์— ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹คโ€ฆ

And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleamsโ€ฆ

โ€œ์‚ฌ๋ง‰์ด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๊ฒƒ์€ ์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€์— ์šฐ๋ฌผ์„ ์ˆจ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ ์ด์ง€โ€ฆโ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œWhat makes the desert beautiful,โ€ said the little prince, โ€œis that somewhere it hides a wellโ€ฆโ€

๋ฌธ๋“ ์‚ฌ๋ง‰์˜ ๊ทธ ์‹ ๋น„๋กœ์šด ๊ด‘์ฑ„๊ฐ€ ์ดํ•ด๋˜์ž ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋†€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง ์•˜๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ€์—์„œ ์‚ด์•˜๋‹ค. ์ „์„ค์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์ง‘ ์— ๋ณด๋ฌผ์ด ๊ฐ์ถฐ์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ๋ณด๋ฌผ์„ ์ฐพ ์•„๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๊ณ , ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ์ฐพ์œผ๋ ค ํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ๋„ ๊ทธ ์ „์„ค๋กœ ์ง‘ ์•ˆ ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋งคํ˜น์— ํœฉ์‹ธ์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด ์ง‘์€ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์Šด ๊นŠ์ˆ™์ด ๋น„๋ฐ€์„ ๊ฐ„์งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹คโ€ฆ

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 heartโ€ฆ

โ€œ๊ทธ๋ž˜. ์ง‘์ด๊ฑด ๋ณ„์ด๊ฑด ํ˜น์€ ์‚ฌ๋ง‰์ด๊ฑด ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š์ง€!โ€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œYes,โ€ I said to the little prince. โ€œThe house, the stars, the desert โ€” what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!โ€

โ€œ์•„์ €์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด ์—ฌ์šฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๊ฐ™์•„ ๊ธฐ๋ป.โ€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œI am glad,โ€ he said, โ€œthat you agree with my fox.โ€

์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ์ž ์ด ๋“ค์–ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ํ’ˆ์— ์•ˆ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฑท๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ๋™์ ์ธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ๋ถ€์„œ์ง€๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ณด๋ฌผ์„ ์•ˆ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋Š๋‚Œ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ด ์ง€๊ตฌ์—๋Š” ์ด๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋ถ€์„œ์ง€๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ๊ฒƒ์ด ์—†์„ ๋“ฏํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

As the little prince dropped off to sleep, I took him in my arms and set out walking once more. I felt deeply moved, and stirred. It seemed to me that I was carrying a very fragile treasure. It seemed to me, even, that there was nothing more fragile on all Earth.

๋‹ฌ๋น› ์•„๋ž˜ ๊ทธ ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํ•œ ์ด๋งˆ, ๊ทธ ๊ฐ๊ธด ๋ˆˆ, ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๊ฒฐ์— ๋‚˜๋ถ€๋ผ๋Š” ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜์ง€๊ธˆ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด ๊ป๋ฐ๊ธฐ์— ์ง€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š” ํ•œ ๊ฑด ๋ˆˆ์— ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š์•„โ€ฆโ€™

In the moonlight I looked at his pale forehead, his closed eyes, his locks of hair that trembled in the wind, and I said to myself:

์‚ด์ง ์—ด๋ฆฐ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž…์ˆ ์ด ๋ณด์ผ ๋“ฏ ๋ง ๋“ฏ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋น„์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ ์–ด ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜์ด ์ž ๋“  ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ดํ† ๋ก ๋ชน์‹œ ๊ฐ๋™์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ฝƒ ํ•œ ์†ก์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์•ผ, ์ž ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ ์„ ๋•Œ์—๋„ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์—์„œ ํƒ€์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ํ•œ ์†ก์ด ์žฅ๋ฏธ ๊ฝƒ ๋ชจ์Šต ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด์ง€โ€ฆโ€™ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ๋” ๋ถ€์„œ์ง€๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ์กด์žฌ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์กŒ๋‹ค. ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ ์„ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ์ง€์ผœ์•ผ๊ฒ ์–ด. ํ•œ ์ค„๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์—๋„ ๊บผ์ ธ ๋ฒ„๋ฆด ํ…Œ๋‹ˆโ€ฆ

โ€œWhat I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisibleโ€ฆโ€ As his lips opened slightly with the suspicion of a half-smile, I said to myself, again: โ€œWhat moves me so deeply, about this little prince who is sleeping here, is his loyalty to a flower โ€” the image of a rose that shines through his whole being like the flame of a lamp, even when he is asleepโ€ฆโ€ And I felt him to be more fragile still. I felt the need of protecting him, as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of windโ€ฆ

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ฑท๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋™ํ‹€ ๋ฌด๋ ต ์šฐ๋ฌผ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

And, as I walked on so, I found the well, at daybreak.

โ…ฉโ…ฉโ…ค

XXV

โ€œ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์„œ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ธ‰ํ–‰์—ด์ฐจ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์–ด๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ์ •์ž‘ ์ž์‹  ๋“ค์ด ๋ฌด์–ผ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์–ด์ฉ” ์ค„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ ์ œ์ž๋ฆฌ ๋ฅผ ๋ฑ…๋ฑ… ๋งด๋Œ์ง€โ€ฆโ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œMen,โ€ said the little prince, โ€œset out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and roundโ€ฆโ€

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์„ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

And he added:

โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ํ•„์š” ์—†๋Š”๋ฐโ€ฆโ€

โ€œIt is not worth the troubleโ€ฆโ€

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„๋‹ฌํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฌผ์€ ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ผ ์‚ฌ๋ง‰ ์šฐ๋ฌผ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋‹ฎ์€ ๊ตฌ์„์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ผ ์šฐ๋ฌผ๋“ค์€ ๋ชจ๋ž˜ ์†์— ๋šซ๋ฆฐ ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์šฐ๋ฌผ์€ ๋งˆ์„ ์šฐ๋ฌผ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—” ๋งˆ์„์ด๋ผ๊ณค ์—†์—ˆ๊ธฐ ์— ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฟˆ์„ ๊พธ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค.

The well that we had come to was not like the wells of the Sahara. The wells of the Sahara are mere holes dug in the sand. This one was like a well in a village. But there was no village here, and I thought I must be dreamingโ€ฆ

โ€œ์ด์ƒํ•œ๋ฐ?โ€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์—†์ž–์•„. ๋„๋ฅด๋ž˜๋ž‘, ๋‘๋ ˆ๋ฐ•์ด๋ž‘, ๋ฐง์ค„๋„โ€ฆโ€

โ€œIt is strange,โ€ I said to the little prince. โ€œEverything is ready for use: the pulley, the bucket, the ropeโ€ฆโ€

๊ทธ๋Š” ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ค„์„ ์žก์•„ ๋„๋ฅด๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋‹น๊ฒผ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์ž ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค ๋‚ก์€ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๊ฐœ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์‚ ๊ฑฑ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋“ฏ ๋„๋ฅด๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ์‚๊ฑฑ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค.

He laughed, touched the rope, and set the pulley to working. And the pulley moaned, like an old weathervane which the wind has long since forgotten.

โ€œ์•„์ €์”จ, ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์ง€?โ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์šฐ๋ฌผ์„ ๊นจ์šฐ๋‹ˆ ๋…ธ๋ž˜ ๋ถ€๋ฅด๋„คโ€ฆโ€

โ€œDo you hear?โ€ said the little prince. โ€œWe have wakened the well, and it is singingโ€ฆโ€

๋‚˜๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ์• ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์›์น˜ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

I did not want him to tire himself with the rope.

โ€œ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ• ๊ฒŒ.โ€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๋„ค๊ฒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์›Œ.โ€

โ€œLeave it to me,โ€ I said. โ€œIt is too heavy for you.โ€

์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‘๋ ˆ๋ฐ•์„ ์šฐ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ง€ ๋“ค์–ด ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‘๋ ˆ ๋ฐ•์ด ๋„˜์–ด์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ์˜ฌ๋ ค๋†“์•˜๋‹ค. ๋‚ด ๊ท€์—๋Š” ๋„๋ฅด๋ž˜ ๋…ธ๋žซ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์† ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์•„์ง๋„ ์ถœ๋ ์ด๋Š” ๋ฌผ์†์—์„œ ์ถœ๋ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

I hoisted the bucket slowly to the edge of the well and set it there โ€” happy, tired as I was, over my achievement. The song of the pulley was still in my ears, and I could see the sunlight shimmer in the still trembling water.

โ€œ์ด ๋ฌผ์ด ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด.โ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๋ฌผ ์ข€ ์ค˜โ€ฆโ€

โ€œI am thirsty for this water,โ€ said the little prince. โ€œGive me some of it to drinkโ€ฆโ€

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค!

And I understood what he had been looking for.

๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‘๋ ˆ๋ฐ•์„ ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž…์ˆ ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ ์„ ๋งˆ์…จ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ถ•์ œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ์—ฐ ์ด ๋ฌผ์€ ๋ณดํ†ต ์Œ๋ฃŒ์™€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ณ„๋น› ์•„๋ž˜์„œ ๋ฒŒ์ธ ํ–‰์ง„๊ณผ ๋„๋ฅด๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๋Š” ๋…ธ๋žซ์†Œ๋ฆฌ, ๋‚ด ๋‘ ํŒ”๋กœ ์ด๋ฃฌ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ์†Œ์‚ฐ์ด์—ˆ ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์น˜ ์„ ๋ฌผ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋งˆ์Œ์—๋„ ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

I raised the bucket to his lips. He drank, his eyes closed. It was as sweet as some special festival treat. This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present.

์–ด๋ฆฐ ์†Œ๋…„ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์—๋„ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ถˆ๋น›๊ณผ ์ž์ •๋ฏธ์‚ฌ ์„ฑ๊ฐ€์™€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์˜จํ™”ํ•œ ๋ฏธ์†Œ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ›์€ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์„ ๋ฌผ์ด ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋น› ์„ ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

When I was a little boy, the lights of the Christmas tree, the music of the Midnight Mass, the tenderness of smiling faces, used to make up, so, the radiance of the gifts I received.

์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์•„์ €์”จ๋ณ„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ํ•œ ์ •์›์— ์žฅ๋ฏธ๊ฝƒ์„ ์˜ค์ฒœ ์†ก์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€๊พธ ์ง€๋งŒ ์ •์›์—์„œ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ด์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ดโ€ฆโ€

โ€œThe men where you live,โ€ said the little prince, โ€œraise five thousand roses in the same garden โ€” and they do not find in it what they are looking for.โ€

โ€œ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ณ ๋ง๊ณ โ€ฆโ€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œThey do not find it,โ€ I replied.

โ€œ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์žฅ๋ฏธ ํ•œ ์†ก์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฌผ ํ•œ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ์— ์„œ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์–ดโ€ฆโ€

โ€œAnd yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water.โ€

โ€œ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ง€.โ€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œYes, that is true,โ€ I said.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

And the little prince added:

โ€œํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ˆˆ์€ ๋ณด์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ด. ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐพ์•„์•ผ์ง€.โ€

โ€œBut the eyes are blind. One must look with the heartโ€ฆโ€

๋‚˜๋„ ๋ฌผ์„ ๋งˆ์‹  ๋’ค์˜€๋‹ค. ์ˆจ์ด ํŽธํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋œฐ ๋ฌด๋ ต ๋ชจ ๋ž˜๋Š” ๊ฟ€ ๋น›์ด๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด ๊ฟ€ ๋น›์—๋„ ํ–‰๋ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์—‡ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ดด๋กœ์›Œํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€โ€ฆ

I had drunk the water. I breathed easily. At sunrise the sand is the color of honey. And that honey color was making me happy, too. What brought me, then, this sense of grief?

โ€œ์•ฝ์† ์ง€์ผœ.โ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ์‚ด๋ฉฐ์‹œ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‚ด ์˜†์— ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œYou must keep your promise,โ€ said the little prince, softly, as he sat down beside me once more.

โ€œ๋ฌด์Šจ ์•ฝ์†?โ€

โ€œWhat promise?โ€

โ€œ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ์ž–์•„โ€ฆ์–‘ ๋ถ€๋ฆฌ๋ง ๋ง์ด์•ผโ€ฆ๋‚œ ๊ทธ ๊ฝƒ์— ์ฑ…์ž„์ด ์žˆ์ž– ์•„!โ€

โ€œYou know โ€” a muzzle for my sheepโ€ฆ I am responsible for this flowerโ€ฆโ€

๋‚˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์ถฉ ๊ทธ๋ ค ๋‘์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋“ค์„ ์ฃผ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์—์„œ ๊บผ๋ƒˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์›ƒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

I took my rough drafts of drawings out of my pocket. The little prince looked them over, and laughed as he said:

โ€œ์•„์ €์”จ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์˜ค๋ฐฅ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ๋ฐฐ์ถ” ๋‹ฎ์•˜์–ดโ€ฆโ€

โ€œYour baobabs โ€” they look a little like cabbages.โ€

โ€œ์•„, ๊ทธ๋ž˜?โ€ ๋ฐ”์˜ค๋ฐฅ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ์œผ์Šค๋Œ€๋˜ ๋‚˜ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋˜๊ฐ€!

โ€œOh!โ€
I had been so proud of my baobabs!

โ€œ์•„์ €์”จ ์—ฌ์šฐ๋Š” ๋ง์ด์•ผโ€ฆ์ด ๊ท€ ์ข€ ๋ดโ€ฆ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋ฟ” ๊ฐ™๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜ ๊ณ โ€ฆ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธธ์–ด!โ€

โ€œYour fox โ€” his ears look a little like horns; and they are too long.โ€

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋˜ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

And he laughed again.

โ€œ๊ผฌ๋งˆ์•ผ, ์ข€ ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ์†์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์•ˆ ๋ณด์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณด์•„ ๋ฑ€ ๋ง๊ณ ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆด ์ค„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.โ€

โ€œYou are not fair, little prince,โ€ I said. โ€œI donโ€™t know how to draw anything except boa constrictors from the outside and boa constrictors from the inside.โ€

โ€œ์•„, ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„. ์•„์ด๋“ค์€ ์•Œ์•„๋ณผ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ.โ€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œOh, that will be all right,โ€ he said, โ€œchildren understand.โ€

๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์—ฐํ•„๋กœ ๋ถ€๋ฆฌ๋ง์„ ๊ทธ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ๋ ค๋‹ˆ ๊ฐ€์Šด์ด ๋ฉ”์–ด ์™”๋‹ค.

So then I made a pencil sketch of a muzzle. And as I gave it to him my heart was torn.

โ€œ๋„ˆ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ์ˆจ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€โ€ฆโ€

โ€œYou have plans that I do not know about,โ€ I said.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

But he did not answer me.

๊ทธ์ € ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์•„์ €์”จ ์•Œ์ง€, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ตฌ์— ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ์ง€โ€ฆ๋‚ด์ผ์ด๋ฉด ์ผ ๋…„์ด ์•ผโ€ฆโ€

He said to me, instead:
โ€œYou know โ€” my descent to the earthโ€ฆ Tomorrow will be its anniversary.โ€

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ ๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ๋ง์ด ์—†๋‹ค ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์„ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Then, after a silence, he went on:

โ€œ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ด ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐโ€ฆโ€

โ€œI came down very near here.โ€

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณค ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋ถ‰ํ˜”๋‹ค.

And he flushed.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ž ๋˜๋‹ค์‹œ ๊นŒ๋‹ญ ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์„ค์›€์ด ๋ณต๋ฐ›์ณ ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.

And once again, without understanding why, I had a queer sense of sorrow.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๋„ ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ์˜๋ฌธ์ด ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค. โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์šฐ์—ฐ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์ „ ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋‚  ์•„์นจ, ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋งˆ์„์—์„œ ์ˆ˜์ฒœ ๋งˆ์ผ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ์ด๊ณณ์„ ํ™€๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ฑท ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด. ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ?โ€

One question, however, occurred to me:
โ€œThen it was not by chance that on the morning when I first met you โ€” a week ago โ€” you were strolling along like that, all alone, a thousand miles from any inhabited region? You were on the your back to the place where you landed?โ€

์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋ถ‰ํ˜”๋‹ค.

The little prince flushed again.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋จธ๋ญ‡๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ง๋ถ™์—ฌ ๋ฌผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

And I added, with some hesitancy:

โ€œ์•„๋งˆ ์ผ์ฃผ๋…„์ด๋ผ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฑฐ๊ฒ ์ง€? โ€ฆโ€

โ€œPerhaps it was because of the anniversary?โ€

์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋ถ‰ํ˜”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฌป๋Š” ๋ง์— ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋Œ€ ๋‹ตํ•˜์ง„ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค, ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์–ผ๊ตด์„ ๋ถ‰ํžˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป ์•„ ๋‹Œ๊ฐ€?

The little prince flushed once more. He never answered questions โ€” but when one flushes does that not mean โ€œYesโ€?

โ€œ์•„! ๋‚œ ๋‘๋ ต๊ตฌ๋‚˜โ€ฆโ€ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œAh,โ€ I said to him, โ€œI am a little frightened โ€” โ€

๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋‹ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

But he interrupted me.

โ€œ์•„์ €์”จ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์ผ์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด. ๊ธฐ๊ณ„ ๊ณ ์น˜๋˜ ๋ฐ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์•„์ €์”จ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆด๊ฒŒ. ๋‚ด์ผ ์ €๋… ๋‹ค์‹œ ์™€โ€ฆโ€

โ€œNow you must work. You must return to your engine. I will be waiting for you here. Come back tomorrow eveningโ€ฆโ€

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆ์‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค. ๊ธธ๋“ค์—ฌ์ง€๋ฉด ์กฐ๊ธˆ์ด๋‚˜๋งˆ ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์„ ํ˜๋ฆด๊นŒ ์šฐ๋ ค๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹คโ€ฆ

But I was not reassured. I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamedโ€ฆ

โ…ฉโ…ฉโ…ฅ

XXVI

์šฐ๋ฌผ ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋‚ก์•„์„œ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ ธ ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ๋Œ๋‹ด์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดํŠฟ๋‚  ์ €๋…, ์ผ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ  ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ์„œ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋Š˜์–ด๋œจ๋ฆฐ ์ฑ„ ๊ทธ ์œ„์— ๊ฑธํ„ฐ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜ ๋Š” ๋ง์ด ๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค.

Beside the well there was the ruin of an old stone wall. When I came back from my work, the next evening, I saw from some distance away my little price sitting on top of a wall, with his feet dangling. And I heard him say:

โ€œ๊ทธ๋ž˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต ์•ˆ ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ? ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์•„๋ƒ!โ€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€œThen you donโ€™t remember. This is not the exact spot.โ€

๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋Œ€๊พธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค.

Another voice must have answered him, for he replied to it:

โ€œ์•„๋‹ˆ์•ผ, ์•„๋‹ˆ์•ผ. ๋‚ ์งœ๋Š” ๋งž๋Š”๋ฐ ์žฅ์†Œ๋Š” ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฑธโ€ฆโ€

โ€œYes, yes! It is the right day, but this is not the place.โ€

๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ด๋ฒผ๋ฝ์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๊ฑธ์–ด๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋“ค๋ฆฌ ์ง€๋„ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ€๊พธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

I continued my walk toward the wall. At no time did I see or hear anyone. The little prince, however, replied once again:

โ€œโ€ฆ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด์ง€. ๋‚ด ๋ฐœ์ž๊ตญ์ด ๋ชจ๋ž˜ ์œ„ ์–ด๋””์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋ณด ๋ฉด ์•Œ์ž–์•„. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋‚  ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ๋ผ. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋ฐค ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๊ฐˆ๊ฒŒ.โ€

โ€œ โ€” Exactly. You will see where my track begins, in the sand. You have nothing to do but wait for me there. I shall be there tonight.โ€

๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ด๋ฒผ๋ฝ์—์„œ ์ด์‹ญ ๋ฏธํ„ฐ์ฏค ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์•„ ๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.

I was only twenty meters from the wall, and I still saw nothing.

์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๋Š” ์ž ์‹œ ์นจ๋ฌต์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์„ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

After a silence the little prince spoke again:

โ€œ๋„ค ๋…์€ ์ข‹์€ ๊ฑฐ์ง€? ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์•„ํ”„๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€?โ€

โ€œYou have good poison? You are sure that it will not make me suffer too long?โ€

๋‚˜๋Š” ์กฐ๋ฐ”์‹ฌ์— ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ ์„ฐ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€๋„ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋ง์ธ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

I stopped in my tracks, my heart torn asunder; but still I did not understand.

โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ ๊ฐ€ ๋ด.โ€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ๋‚ด๋ ค๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ!โ€

โ€œNow go away,โ€ said the little prince. โ€œI want to get down from the wall.โ€

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋‚˜๋„ ๋‹ด๋ฒผ๋ฝ ์•„๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ ค๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ธฐ๊ฒ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ง์•˜ ๋‹ค! ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์‚ผ์‹ญ ์ดˆ๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃฝ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ชฐ ๋…ธ๋ž€ ๋ฑ€ ํ•œ ๋งˆ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋Œ€๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ณ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

I dropped my eyes, then, to the foot of the wall โ€” and I leaped into the air. There before me, facing the little prince, was one of those yellow snakes that take just thirty seconds to bring your life to an end.

๊ถŒ์ด์„ ๊บผ ๋‚ด๋ ค ํ˜ธ์ฃผ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ๋’ค์ง€๋ฉฐ ๊ณง์žฅ ๋›ฐ์–ด๊ฐ”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋‚ด ๋ฐœ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์— ๊ทธ ๋ฑ€์€ ๋ถ„์ˆ˜๋Œ€ ๋ฌผ์ค„๊ธฐ ๊บผ์ง€๋“ฏ ๋ชจ๋ž˜ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์Šค๋ฅด๋ฅด ๋ฏธ๋„๋Ÿฌ์ ธ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ์‡ณ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ๋Œ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด๋กœ ์Šฌ๊ทธ๋จธ๋‹ˆ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ ธ ๋ฒ„๋ ธ๋‹ค.

Even as I was digging into my pocked to get out my revolver I made a running step back. But, at the noise I made, the snake let himself flow easily across the sand like the dying spray of a fountain, and, in no apparent hurry, disappeared, with a light metallic sound, among the stones.

๋‹ด๋ฒผ๋ฝ์— ์ด๋ฅธ ๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์ € ๋ˆˆ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฐฝ๋ฐฑํ•œ ๋‚ด ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฒจ์šฐ ํ’ˆ์— ์•ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

I reached the wall just in time to catch my little man in my arms; his face was white as snow.

โ€œ๋„๋Œ€์ฒด ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด์•ผ? ์ด์   ๋ฑ€ํ•˜๊ณ ๋„ ๋ง์„ ๋‹ค ํ•˜๊ณ !โ€

โ€œWhat does this mean?โ€ I demanded. โ€œWhy are you talking with snakes?โ€

๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜ ๋ชฉ์— ๋‘๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ๊ธˆ๋น› ๋จธํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ํ’€์–ด ์ฃผ ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€์ž๋†€์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ๋กœ ์ ์…” ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋ฌผ์„ ๋จน์—ฌ ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ ๊ฐ€ ๋ด. ๋‚ด๋ ค๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ!โ€ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐํžˆ ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋ฌผ์–ด๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ง„์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚ด ๋ชฉ์„ ๋‘ ํŒ”๋กœ ๊ปด์•ˆ์•˜๋‹ค. ์นด๋นˆ ์†Œ์ด์— ๋งž์•„ ์ฃฝ์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ƒˆ ๊ฐ€์Šด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฐ€์Šด์ด ๋›ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋Š๊ปด์กŒ๋‹ค.

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 someoneโ€™s rifleโ€ฆ

โ€œ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ป. ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ ๊ณ ์žฅ ๋‚œ ๋ฐ๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„๋ƒˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ. ์•„์ €์”ฌ ์ด ์ œ ์ง‘์— ๋Œ์•„๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋„คโ€ฆโ€

โ€œI am glad that you have found what was the matter with your engine,โ€ he said. โ€œNow you can go back home โ€” โ€

โ€œ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์•Œ์•˜๋‹ˆ?โ€

โ€œHow do you know about that?โ€

์ฒœ๋งŒ๋‹คํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ์— ์„ฑ๊ณตํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ด์ฃผ๋ ค๋˜ ์ฐธ์ธ๋ฐ ์ด๋ ‡ ๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•˜๋‹ค๋‹ˆ!

I was just coming to tell him that my work had been successful, beyond anything that I had dared to hope.

๋‚ด ๋ฌผ์Œ์—๋Š” ์•„๋ž‘๊ณณ์—†์ด ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์™•์ž๋Š” ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

He made no answer to my question, but he added:

โ€œ๋‚˜๋„ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€โ€ฆโ€

โ€œI, too, am going back home todayโ€ฆโ€

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋”๋‹ˆ ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Then, sadly โ€”

โ€œ๋‚ด ๊ฐˆ ๊ธธ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋ฉ€๊ณ โ€ฆํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ํž˜๋“ค๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ โ€ฆโ€

โ€œIt is much fartherโ€ฆ It is much more difficultโ€ฆโ€

๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€ ์‹ฌ์ƒ์ฐฎ์€ ์ผ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์•„์ด ์•ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ํ’ˆ์— ์•ˆ์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ๋„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ถ™์žก์•„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์—†์ด ๊นŠ์€ ๊ตฌ๋ฉ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๊ณง์žฅ ๋น ์ ธ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™ ์•˜๋‹คโ€ฆ

I realized clearly that something extraordinary was happening. I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child; and yet it seemed to me that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain himโ€ฆ

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ง„์ง€ํ•œ ๋ˆˆ๋น›์œผ๋กœ ์•„๋“ํ•œ ๊ณณ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.

His look was very serious, like some one lost far away.

โ€œ๋‚˜๋Š” ์•„์ €์”จ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ ค์ค€ ์–‘์ด ์žˆ์–ด. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์–‘์„ ๋„ฃ์–ด ๋‘˜ ์ƒ์ž๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ . ๋ถ€๋ฆฌ๋ง๋„โ€ฆโ€

โ€œI have your sheep. And I have the sheepโ€™s box. And I have the muzzleโ€ฆโ€

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ ๋Š” ์šฐ์ˆ˜์–ด๋ฆฐ ๋ฏธ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์—ˆ๋‹ค.

And he gave me a sad smile.

๋‚˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋ž˜ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ๋‹ค. ์ ์ฐจ ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ชธ์ด ๋”์›Œ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋Š ๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

I waited a long time. I could see that he was reviving little by little.

โ€œ์–˜์•ผ, ๋ฌด์„œ์› ๋˜ ๊ฒŒ๋กœ๊ตฌ๋‚˜โ€ฆโ€

โ€œDear little man,โ€ I said to him, โ€œyou are afraidโ€ฆโ€

๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค! ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์‚ด๋ฉฐ์‹œ ์›ƒ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He was afraid, there was no doubt about that. But he laughed lightly.

โ€œ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €๋…์ด ๋” ๋ฌด์„œ์šธ๊ฑธโ€ฆโ€

โ€œI shall be much more afraid this eveningโ€ฆโ€

์ด์   ๋Œ์ดํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ์˜จ๋ชธ์ด ์˜ค์‹นํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์›ƒ์Œ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์˜์˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๊ฒฌ๋””์ง€ ๋ชป ํ•˜๋ฆฌ๋ผ ๋ฌธ๋“ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์›ƒ์Œ์€ ๋‚ด๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋ง‰์˜ ์ƒ˜ ๊ฐ™ ์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Once again I felt myself frozen by the sense of something irreparable. And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert.