Wei WuXian thought otherwise. He chuckled, "Who cares if he ignored me? Does he look pretty?" After a thought, he realized that Lan WangJi did look pretty.
Wei WuXian smiled, "Why would I leave the nice, broad road, and walk on a single-plank bridge on a dark, narrow river instead? If it really is that easy, people would have already walked on it. Don't worry, he was just asking, and I was just answering..."
"One day l saw the sunset forty-four times! But you know - one loves sunset, when one is so sad..."
"Were you so sad on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" l asked.
But The Little Prince did not answer.
For about four-fifths of the time included in the 30 years of gold-standard history reviewed in this chapter, most of the world was on a paper-money standard. The only two important nations that stand as exceptions to this statement are China, in which the silver standard ruled for about two-thirds of the time and the paper-money standard for the other third, and the United States, in which the gold standard prevailed for about 90 per cent of the time.