3. The little prince thinks about his flower (4). And the little prince was suddenly overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden! She would be resentful," he thought to himself, "if she could see this. she would be cough and cough and pretend she was dying so as to avoid being thought ridiculous.