It was early June when, on his return journey, he drove once again into the birch-wood where the gnarled oak-tree had made such a strangely indelible impression on him. The harness-bells jingled in the woodland with a more muffled sound
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Prince Andrey, on returning from the Rostov estate, encounters the oak tree again. The old tree has transformed and acccepted Spring and its reblooming. The tree is a symbolic representation of Andrey and the transformation he is undergoing after meeting Natasha Rostov.
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