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有位老太太总为她园里的那棵大玫瑰树感到得意,喜欢对人讲它是怎样从一条插枝长成,好些年前她结婚的时候才从意大利带回来的。她同她的丈夫从罗马坐四轮马车旅行回去(当时还没有火车),在西恩那南部一段坏路上他们停了下来,不得不在路旁的小店里过夜。小店设备当然简陋,她一夜没有睡好觉,很早就起床,披上衣服,站在窗前,凉风拂面,眺望着黎明。过了这些年,她还能记得明月高照的青
An old lady always felt pleased with the big rose tree in her garden and liked how she told people how it grew out of a single cut that she brought back from Italy some years before she got married. She and her husband traveled back and forth from Rome in a carriage (there were no trains at the time) and stopped on the bad road south of Siena and had to spend the night in a small shop by the road. Shop equipment, of course simple, she did not sleep well overnight, very early to get up, put on clothes, standing in front of the window, the breeze was blowing, overlooking the dawn. After all these years, she still remembers the brilliant blue sky of the moon