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Outside the entrance of the Mariabronn cloister, whose rounded arch rested on slim double ns, a chestnut tree stood close to the road. It was a sweet chestnut, with a sturdy trunk and a full round that swayed gently in the wind, brought from Italy many years earlier by a monk who had made a pilgrimage to Rome. In the spring it waited until all the surrounding trees were green, and even the hazel and walnut trees were wearing ruddy foliage, before sprouting its own first leaves; then, during the shortest nights of the year, it drove the delicate white-green rays of its exotis out through tufts of leaves, filling the air with an admonishing and pu fragrance. In October, after the grape and apple harvests, the autumn wind shook the prickly chestnuts out of the trees burnished gold ; the cloister students would scramble and fight for the nuts, and Priory, who came from the south, roasted them in the firepla his room. The beautiful treetop—secret kin to ……（内容加载失败！）
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